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the little, which I am going to advance, will be fuf- 

 ficient to overturn the pofition maintained by men 

 of but too high celebrity in the World of Science, 

 namely, That human Beauty is arbitrary. 



I will even go fo far as to flatter myfelf with the 

 hope, that thefe rude Eflays may induce wife men, 

 who love .Nature, and who wifli to be acquainted 

 with her Laws, to dig into the receffes of this vaft 

 mountain of hidden treafure, in which Truth lies 

 buried. Their multiplied illumination will con- 

 duâ: them, without difficulty, through the whole 

 extent of that invaluable mine, of which, groping 

 like a blind man, I have traced only the firft fu- 

 perficial furrows. They will be led on from one 

 rich vein of precious ore, to another ftill richer, 

 fmce even I, if I may prefume to fay fo, have been 

 able, at the bottom of a valley, and on the fandy 

 bed of a little rivulet, to pick up a few ftraggHng 

 grains of gold. 



END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 



