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any fufpicion. Tho’ the colleétion of ex- 
periments feems continually, by means of 
the learned focieties, and the labours of‘ in- 
dividuals, to be augmenting, we need not 
entertain any apprehenfions, that the world 
will ever be overwhelmed by the number of 
confufed and independent obfervations. The 
heap does not always go on, increafing in 
bulk and diforder, thro’ every age. There 
arife, from time to time, bold and happy ge- © 
niufes, who introduce method and fimplicity 
into particular branches of fcience; and re- 
ducing the fcattered experiments to more 
general theorems, abridge the fcience of na- 
ture. Hints of this kind, we hope, may 
be able to pafs thro’ our hands; and at wortt, 
our collections will be a fpecies of magazine, 
in which fats and obfervations, the fole 
means of true induction, will be depofited for 
the purpofes of philofophy. 
Tue fciences of theology, morals, and 
politics, the fociety are refolved intirely to 
exclude from their plan. However difficult 
the inferences in thefe fciences, the facts, on 
which 
