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are worth a multitude of the others. When, therefore, we 

 are forming our tables they must be searched out with the 

 greatest zeal, and placed in the table. And, since mention 

 must be made of them in what follows, a treatise upon their 

 nature has necessarily been prefixed. We must next, how 

 ever, proceed to the supports and corrections of induction, 

 and thence to concretes, the latent process, and latent con 

 formations, and the other matters, which we have enume 

 rated in their order in the twenty-first aphorism, in order 

 that, like good and faithful guardians, we may yield up their 

 fortune to mankind, upon the emancipation and majority 

 of their understanding ; from which must necessarily follow 

 an improvement of their estate, and an increase of their 

 power over nature. For man, by the fall, lost at once his 

 state of innocence, and his empire over creation, both of 

 which can be partially recovered even in this life, the first 

 by religion and faith, the second by the arts and sciences. 

 For creation did not become entirely and utterly rebel 

 lious by the curse, but in consequence of the divine decree, 

 &quot; In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread,&quot; she is 

 compelled by our labours (not assuredly by our disputes or 

 magical ceremonies), at length, to afford mankind in some 

 degree his bread, that is to say, to supply man s daily 

 wants. 



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