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120 puh'd his metaphyical Errors o far, as to declare that two and two make four, for no other Reaon but becaue God would have it o. However, 'twill not be making him too great a Compliment if we affirm that he was valuable even in his Mitakes. He deceiv'd himelf, but then it was at leat in a methodical Way. He detroy'd all the aburd Chimra's with which Youth had been infatuated for two thouand Years. He taught his Cotemporaries how to reaon, and enabled them to employ his own Weapons against himelf. If Des Cartes did not pay in good Money, he however did great Service in crying down that of a bae Alloy.

believe, that very few will preume to compare his Philoophy in any repect with that of Sir Iaac Newton. The former is an Eay, the latter a Mater-Piece: But then the Man who firt brought us to the Path of Truth, was perhaps as great a Genius as he who afterwards conducted us through it.

gave Sight to the Blind. Thee aw the Errors of Antiquity and of