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 we hat,,e ha<l nothing like them publifhed ever fince, except (abft tnvidi verbo) the inf?ired books ot te Nerv Tefi-ment  though a very able Logician, and an Ox}niar, too, nay, atO a-member of a col- lege, where arfotle has no rea�on to corn lain of P diefpee2, has been heard to declare, that the B z s T lole that au ever written, except the Bi L Z, WaS For my part, I cannot agree with this learned gentleman, but firmly and orthodoxly balieve that .drifiotle, as by law eltablifh, is the bef author, that ever let pen to lvar: I have indeed often heard out c..unrryman, obn Locke, laut in come. tition with him; but to me it �ees very plain 'dmt riflotle was a deeper fihol, r than l.oke, be. eanfe he wrote in Greet (which was his rr, otSer tngue) and a better churchman, becaufe i,fi of a hr.'flia. But, as great a f-fiencl as I am to this old heehe bbilq.her, l can fee no teafort to believe every thing he 5', nor to fwallow ,his truths and hi fal. bhoo,ls _togeher I wou!d there bre humbly propore a re. rmateou of learning from the philq3Ihil popers', which prevails at ?re.nt in our 'univefiti'e5 ! would have no more a  infMIibilty pretended to i hefehools, lan m he �hur�h no bfolute dererrol nauon of fpeculative points tepofed iu any ma, or body o  rnen but I would have an univetfil tolera- tion allowed to, al! tl'u&nts and lovers of trmh,  q,aire impartially aev it, and to clifpute 'eely a- bout it I would have all inexplicable jargon, iufig- nifieant terms, and empty phrology vth whJe uur dif?utatiov, have been o.: encumber'd, banifh' from the fhools  and, in a-few words, 1 wouk have our learned education, which at pre. fent roar wo far into netlh)a! and /v;ble regions, re duced to at#rl teafin and ommou finfiS

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