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Rh of the age Laws of the former, and improv'd upon others. Things, and thoe the mot eential to Man, are wanting in the Royal Society of London, I mean Rewards and Laws. A Seat in the Academy at Paris is a mall, but ecure Fortune to a Geometrician or a Chymit; but this is o far from being the Cae at London, that the everal Members of the Royal Society are at a continual, tho' indeed mall Expence. Any Man in England who declares himelf a Lover of the Mathematicks and natural Philoophy, and exprees an Inclination to be a Member of the Royal Society, is immediately elected into it. But in France 'tis not enough that a Man who apires to the Honour of being a Member of the Academy, and of receiving the Royal Stipend, has a love for