The eels 3 
Superftra@ures, Lam abundantly fatisfied ; and all my ambition is, 
that Imay ferve tothe great Philofophers of this Age , asthe makers 
and the grinders of my Glaffes did tome ; that I may prepare and furs — 
nifh them with fome Materials, wbich they may afterwards order and 
manaye with better skill, and to far greater advantage. | : 
The next remedies in this univerfal cure of the Mind are to be ap- 
_ plyedto the Memory, and they are to confift of fuch Direbtions as may 
inform ws, what things are beft to be tor’d up for our purpofe, and 
which isthe bef way of ra f difpofing them, that they may not only be 
kept in fafety, but ready and comoenient,to be at any time produc'd for 
fe, @ occafion fhall require. But I will not here prevent my felf in 
what I may fay in another Difcourfe , wherein I fhall. make an -at- 
temipt to propofe foe Confider ations of the manner of compiling a Na- 
tural and Artificial Hiftory, and of fo ranging and regiftring its 
Partiewdars into Philofophical Tables, as may make: them tnof ufeful 
for the raifing of Axioms and Theories. 7 
The laft indeed is the moft hazardous Enterprize, il ‘yet the nnof 
neceflary 5 and that is, totake fuchcare that the Judgment and the 
Reafon of Man ¢ which isthe third Faculty to be repair'd and im- 
prov'd) fhould recetwe \fuchaffiftance, as to-avdid the dangersto 
which it is by mature moft fubjeti The Imperfections, which Ihave al- 
ready mention’, +0 which it is lable, do either belong to the extent, 
or rhe poodnels of ts knowledge ; and bere the difficulty is the grea 
ter, leaft that which may be thought .a remedy for the one’ fhoula 
provedeftractive tothe other, Teaft by feeking toinlarge our Kinow= 
kedve, we fould vender it weak, and aancertain cand keaft by boing : 
*\ In both thee bachiale wages: wedide nero ain pes : 
cael and yet every thing to paf? a mature deliberations, Ne 
Intelligence from Men of all Profeffeons, and quarters of the Ward, 4 
| tobellighted;andyer ail tobefolevercly exaimintd,that there remain 
* no'robm for doubr or- tnftability 5 zich vigour in \admittingy ai = 
ite comparing ed abe almac own in akebatingyand, 
fhynely: 
