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atthelaft (byGodsa/Iiftance) we have climbed 

 up to the g topof the hill ; from whence looking downe 

 aver the whole regionof bodies, we may delight out 

 felves , with feeing what a height the weary fteps we af- 

 cended by, have brought us unto. It is true ., the path we have . 

 walked in, is of Jate fo untrodden, and fo overgrowne with bry- 

 ars, as it hath not been without much labour,that we have made 

 our way through. And perad venture , it may feem toylefbme 

 unto others to follow us, efpecially fiich as are not much enured 

 to like journeys : but 1 hope, the fruit which both we. and they 

 are now arrived to gather of our paines, in this generall view 

 we have taken of rhe,empire of matter,and ofcorporeall agents, 

 is foch ., as none of us hath reafon to be ill fatisfied with the 

 imployingof them. For what can more powerfully de'ii^t, 

 or more nobly entertaine an under/landing foule, then the 

 fearch and difcoycry of thofeworkes of nature a which being in 

 their effects fo plainly expofed to our eyes, are in their caufes 

 fo abftrufe and" hidden from our comprehenfion , as (through 

 defpaire of fiicccflc) they deter rnoft men from enquiring into 

 tbem? 



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