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Creator; which I likewife believe the moft 

 reafonable Way of accounting for the Qua- 

 lities or Properties of moft other Things 

 around us. To which give me leave to add, 

 that if we would employ more of our Time 

 and Pains to difcover what the Forms and 

 Qualities of Things really are, and amufe 

 ourfelves lefs with accounting for them and 

 finding out why they are, (which is aiming 

 beyond our Reach) we fhould probably be 

 wifer, and perhaps better. 



Our Senfes, with all the Affiftances we 

 can give them, are capable of informing 

 us but to a certain Degree: our Underftand- 

 ing is likewife limited in its Judgment ac- 

 cording to the Information of our Senfes; 

 whereby it is evident, that our Senfes and 

 Underftanding are adapted to each other, 

 and that our Underftanding is properly and 

 ufcfully employed when we examine by it 

 the different Forms and Circumftances of 

 Things Animate or Inanimate which our 

 Senfes prefent before us. But it is a kind 

 of Madnefs, or at beft mif-fpending Time, 

 to hunt after the hidden and invifible Caufes 

 or Modus operandi of fuch Forms or Qua- 

 lities, which we can never poflibly find out. 



It is one great Part of Wifdom to know 

 what we have Abilities for, and what Things 

 are beyond our Power; that we may apply 

 to the former, and avoid perplexing our- 

 felves 



