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Rh cannot at once know all the Properties of the Soil. Thoe who come after him, and make thee Lands fruitful, are at leat oblig'd to him for the Dicovery. I will not deny but that there are innumerable Errors in the ret of Des Cartes's Works.

was a Guide he himelf had in ome Meaure fahion'd, which would have conducted him afely thro' the everal Paths of natural Philoophy. Nevertheles he at lat abandon'd this Guide, and gave entirely into the Humour of forming Hypothees; and then Philoophy was no more than an ingenious Romance, fit only to amue the Ignorant. He was mitaken in the Nature of the Soul, in the Proofs of the Exitence of a God, in Matter, in the Laws of Motion, and in the Nature of Light. He admitted innate Ideas, he invented new Elements, he created a World; he made Man according to his own Fancy; and 'tis jutly aid, that the Man of Des Cartes is in Fact that of Des Cartes only, very different from the real one. Rh