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 Lastly, This History with the Comments thereupon, and the Indices, Preface and Supplements thereunto belonging would make usable (if it be at all possible) to demonstrate Axioms in Philosophy, the Value and dignity whereof cannot be valued or computed.

The next Booke which we recommend is the History of Nature free, for indeed the History of Trades is also an History of Nature, but of Nature vexed and disturbed. What we meane by this History, may be known by the Lord Verulams most excellent Specimen thereof, and as for the particulars that it should treat on, we referre to his Exact and Judicious Catalogue of them, at the end of his Advancement of Learning.