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 eminently Favourers of Learned Men. I have mentioned my own Country last, that I might once more observe, that it was a Prince of our own, who founded the ROYAL SOCIETY, (o) whose Studies, Writings and Productions, though they have not out-shined or eclipsed the Lycæum of Plato, the Academy of Aristotle, the Stoa of Zeno, or the Garden of Epicurus, because they were neither written at the same Time, nor, for the most part, upon the same Subjects; yet will always help to keep alive the Memory of that Prince, who incorporated them into a Body, that so they might the easier do that by their Joint-Labours, which singly would have been, in a manner, impossible to be effected.

The last of Sir William Temple's Reasons of the great Decay of Modern Learning (p) is Pedantry; the urging of which is an evident Argument, that his Discourse is levelled against Learning, not as it stands now, but as it was Fifty or Sixty Years ago. For the new Philosophy has introduced so great a Correspondence between Men of Learning and Men of Business; which has also been en-