PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. 



PART m. 



WORKS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR PARTS OP THE INSTAU- 

 RATIO MAGNA, BUT SUPERSEDED OR ABANDONED ; 



ARRANGED 

 ACCORDING TO THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE WRITTEN. 



&quot; Because you were wont to make me believe you took liking to my writings, I 

 send you some of this vacation s fruits ; and thus much more of my minJ and 

 purpose. I hasten not to publish : perishing I would prevent ; and am forced to 

 respect as well my times as the matter. For with me it is thus, and I think with all 

 men in my case : if I bind myself to an argument, it loadeth my mind ; but if I rid 

 myself of the present cogitation, it is rather a recreation. This hath put me into 

 these miscellanies, which I purpose to suppress if God give me leave to write a just 

 and perfect volume of Philosophy, which I go on with, though slowly.&quot; Ltttcr to 

 Bishop Andrews upon sending him the Cogitata et Visa. 



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