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Rh tongue, at their debates, could do, was to make them acquiesce in the Proposition of Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern’d, because he brought me thither, to afford me some faint assistance, was content that I should register their Arguments, that I might be the better able after the conclusion of their conference to give them my sence upon the Subject of it, (The number of Elements or Principles) which he promis’d I should do at the end of the present Debates, if time would permit, or else at our next meeting. And this being by him undertaken in my name, though without my consent, the company would by no means receive my Protestation against it, but casting, all at once, their eyes on Carneades, they did by that and their unanimous silence, invite to him to begin; which (after a short pause, during which turn’d himself to Eleutherius and me) he did in this manner.

Notwithstanding, the subtile reasonings I have met with in the books of the Paripateticks, and the pretty experiments that have been shew’d me in the Laboratories of Chymists, I am of so