PRE B: As Be 
SASSY 7 is the great prerogative of Mankind abéve other 
NES) (2525 © Creatures, that we are not only able to behold the 
7 (23| Tex works of Nature, or barely tofuttein our Lives by 
Se them, but we have allo the power of confidering, 
SSSA comparing, altering, affifting, and improving 
them to various ufes.And as this is the peculiar priviledge of humane 
Nature in general, fo is it capable of being fo far.adwanced by the helps 
of Art, anid Experience, as to'make:fome Men excel others in their 
Obfervations, and DeduEtions,almoft as muchas they do Beafts, By the 
addition of fucb artificial Inftruments oe may bein 
fome manner, a reparation’ made for the: mifchiefs,.and ; 
mankind has drawn upon it (elf, by negligencesand intemperance, and a 
wilful and fuperfitions deferting the Prefcripts and Rules of Natute, 
whereby every man, both froma deriv'd corruption, innate and born 
with him, and from bis breeding and ee wi rac i a fall 
ty fipinto all forts of ertors. 
“The only way which now remains for us to recover ven destée, of 
thofe former perfettions, feems to be,by reéiifying the operations of ‘the 
Serife,thé Memory,and Reafon, {ince upon theevidence,the ftrength, 
the integrity, ard the right correfpondence of all thefe,allthe light; 
by which our a€tions are to be guided, istabetenemed, coal 
mand over things is to be shabli. im 
PGB therefore moft- worthy of our sient rorecolleh teieo 
(iteab dts, that [owe may the better underfland bow to fupply them, 
and ‘by what affftanices we may pasion parent fecustfher i in 
ir particular 
om the ablions of cur Senfes, we ‘isekheslee cheat 
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