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Rh. He who thinks to find the true principles of phyics and the laws of natural things by the force alone of his own mind, and the internal light of his reaon mut either uppoe that the World exits by neceity, and by the ame neceity follows the laws propoed; or if the order of Nature was etablihed by the will of, that himelf, a mierable reptile, can tell what was fittet to be done. All found and true philoophy is founded on the appearances of things; which if they draw us never o much againt our wills, to uch principles as mot clearly manifet to us the mot excellent counel and upreme dominion of the All-wie and Almighty Being; thoe principles are not therefore to be laid aide, becaue ome men may perhaps dilike them. They may call them, if they pleae, miracles or occult qualities; but names maliciouly given ought not to be a diadvantage to the things themelves; unles they will ay at lat, that all philoophy ought to be founded in atheim. Philoophy mut not be corrupted in complaiance to thee men; for the order of things will not be changed.

Fair and equal judges will therefore give entence in favour of this mot excellent method of philoophy. which is founded on experiments and obervations. To this method it is hardly to be aid or imagined, what light, what plendor, hath accrued from this admirable work of our illutrious author; whoe happy and ublime genius, revolving the mot difficult problems, and reaching to dicoveries of which the mind of man was thought incapable before, is deervedly admired by all thoe who are omewhat more than uperficially vered in the matters. The gates are now et open; and by