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Rh difficult kind and a more enible Ue, embrace the Knowledge of Nature and the Improvements of the Arts. We may preume that uch profound, uch uninterrupted Puruits as thee, uch exact Calculations, uch refin'd Dicoveries, uch extenive and exalted Views, will, at lat, produce omething that may prove of Advantage to the Univere. Hitherto, as we have oberv'd together, the mot ueful Dicoveries have been made in the mot barbarous Times. One wou'd conclude, that the Buines of the mot enlightned Ages and the mot learned Bodies, is, to argue and debate on Things which were invented by ignorant People. We know exactly the Angle which the Sail of a Ship is to make with the Keel, in order to its ailing better; and yet Columbus dicover'd America, without having the leat Idea of the Property of this Angle: However I am far from inferring from hence, that we are to confine our elves merely to a blind Practice, but happy it were, wou'd Rh