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 must stand coeval with material creation.

a mechanical knack, & kill in drawing asits much in making experiments. uch as poses it take thir ideas of things incomparably tronger & more perfect than others. it inlarges thir view, they ee deeper, & farther. It ripens, & quickens thir invention. for want of this handycraft, how many philoophers quietly sit down in thir tudys, & invent an hypotheis? but Sr. Iaac's way was, by dint of experiment to find out, quid Natura faciat aut feret?

philoophers, like great conquerors, or politic ministers of tate, must take into thir aitance arts, & helps low, & ordid. as uccess in war depends on the arm of the cum of mankind, as well as on the head of the General.

children are always imitators. & perhaps his being brought up in an apothecarys houe might give him a turn to the tudy of nature. no doubt it gave him a love for herbarizing. but he was in reality born a philoopher. learning, & accident, & indutry pointed out to his dicerning eye some few, imple & universal truths. these by time, & reflexion, he gradually extended one from another, one beyond another, till he unfolded the œconomy of the macrocom.