226 NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY. 



namely, as to the points to be investigated and committed 

 to writing in every history, on account of their conducing 

 to the end in view, and forming particular topics, or rather 

 (to borrow a metaphor from the civilians) in this great 

 action or cause, which has been conceded and instituted 

 by special favour and divine providence, and by which man 

 kind are contending for the recovery of their dominion 

 over nature, let us examine nature and the arts themselves 

 upon interrogatives. 



