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234 for the Sciences; he mut at the ame Time be deeply kill'd in them; and is oblig'd to dipute the Seat with Competitors who are o much the more formidable as they are fir'd by a Principle of Glory, by Interet, by the Difficulty it elf, and by that Inflexibility of Mind, which is generally found in thoe who devote themelves to that pertinacious Study, the Mathematicks.

Academy of Sciences is prudently confin'd to the Study of Nature, and, indeed, this is a Field pacious enough for fifty or threecore Perons to range in. That of London mixes indicrimately Literature with Phyicks: But methinks the founding an Academy merely for the polite Arts is more judicious, as it prevents Confuion, and the joining, in ome Meaure, of Heterogeneals, uch as a Diertation on the Head-drees of the Roman Ladies with an hundred or more new Curves.

there is wery little Order and Regularity in the Royal Society, and not the leat Encouragement; and that the demy