THE NEWTONIAN PHILOSOPHY, Js5 



work, will, I know, be unfavourably received by thofe who have been 

 nurfed, as it were, in the mechanical philofophy, and have grown old 

 in it ; for it is a moft difficult lefTon, 



Quae imberbes dedicere, fenes perdenda fateri. ^ 



But thofe who are claffical fcholars, and who have a genius that can 

 comprehend the whole of philofophy, without being confined to the 

 narrow fcience of lines and figures, will, at lead, give a fair hearing 

 to what I have faid againft the modern philofophy, and will be difpo- 

 fed to believe that the antiems, whofe writings they admire fo much 

 upon other iubjeds, have not gone altogether wrong, either in natu- 

 ral philofophy or theology. 



