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TABLE V. 



The fifth table of Results, termed the first vintage or Table of 

 dawn of doctrine, consists of a collection of such natures 

 as always accompany the sought nature, increase with its 

 increase, and decrease with its decrease. 



It appears, that, in all instances, the nature of heat is 

 motion of parts ; flame is perpetually in motion ; hot or 

 boiling liquors are in continual agitation ; the sharpness 

 and intensity of heat is increased by motion, as in bellows 

 and blasts; existing fire and heat are extinguished by 

 strong compression, which checks and puts a stop to all 

 motion; all bodies are destroyed, or at least remarkably 

 altered, by heat ; and, when heat wholly escapes from the 

 body, it rests from its labours ; and hence it appears, that 

 heat is motion, and nothing else. 



Having collected and winnowed, by the various tables, 

 the different facts presented to the senses, he proposed to 

 examine them by nine different processes : (a) of which 

 he has investigated only the first, (b) or PREROGATIVE 



(a) 1. Prerogative instances. 2. The helps of induction. 

 3. The rectification of induction. 4. The method of 

 varying inquiries, according to the nature of the subject. 

 5. Prerogative natures for inquiry, or what subjects are to 

 be inquired into first, what second. 6. The limits of 

 inquiry, or an inventory of all the natures in the universe. 

 7. Reducing inquiries to practice, or making them sub 

 servient to human uses. 8. The preliminaries to inquiry. 

 9. The ascending and descending scale of Axioms. 



(6) Nor was any thing afterwards published towards executing the rest, 



though it appears that the whole design was laid from the first, and that y 



at times, the other parts were gone on with, after the present piece was 



published. The want of these additional sections may, perhaps, be in some 



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