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gument, of the second part of the Installation. So 

 doth that(j) of the philosophy of Parmenides and 

 Telesius, and (especially) Democritus. For, as he 

 sheweth in the beginning of that part) he designed 

 first to consider the learning of which the world was 

 possessed; and then to perfect that ; and that being 

 done, to open new ways to further discoveries. 



To the Aphorisms is reducible, his letter to Sir 

 Henry Savil, touching helps for the intellectual 

 powers, written by his lordship in the English (&) 

 tongue. A part of knowledge then scarce broken, (7) 

 men believing that nature was here rather to be fol 

 lowed than guided by art ; and as necessary (in his 

 lordship s opinion) as the grinding and whetting of 

 an instrument or the quenching it, and giving it a 

 stronger temper. 



Also there belong to this place, the fragment 

 called &quot; Aphorism! et Consilia, de Auxiliis Mentis.&quot; 

 And &quot; Sententiaa Duodecim de Interpretatione Na- 

 turas ;&quot; both published by Gruter in the Latin 

 tongue, in which his lordship wrote them, (m) 



The imperfection of this work from its hasty 

 publication, its nature, arid the probable object of 

 the whole work will be attempted in the conclusion 

 of this Preface s which will be continued in the next 

 volume. 



(j) Pag. 208. 



(k) Resusc. p. 225, &c. 



(1} See of late, Spinoza on that subject. 



(m) See Script, p. 448, 451. 



