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polifliing to thefeftones, here where we dig^c them out of the 

 quarry, whereby they may hereafter with leflt-adoe, tit the pla- 

 ces we have afligned them, in the ftrufture we intend : and fo, a 

 little trouble here, whiles our tooles are ftill in our hands, and our 

 matter lyeth ready for our ftroakes, and our thoughts are warmth 

 with working upon them, may fave us a great dcale there , where 

 our maineimploymtnt will bee, tolay artificially; and to joync 

 clofely,whatnowwcbut hew out : and then fore will require 

 finer inftruments, and a fharper edge, then what at pre fent frrveth 

 our turne. 



Let us then bring back to account all we have faid in thisChap- 

 ter ; and when we have well reflected upon every particular, we 

 (hall find they all agree in this , that they are nothing tlfe but a 

 due ordering of one thing with another: a fyllogifme is an orde- 

 ring of foine few notions : a fcience is an ordering of fyllogifmes, 

 in fuch foi t, as a new Propofition may follow out of thofe which 

 went before : and as we fee that when by our thoughts divers fyl- 

 logifmes are well ordered , hidden things come to be difclofcd 

 in our underftanding ; even fo among bodies, if things whofc pro- 

 prieties are knowne, be likewife ordered and put together , thofe 

 very effects, which were difcovercd by the ordering of notions 

 in our head, will fpring forth in nature: as for example, if by 

 knowing the natures of fire and oftowe, ourdifcourfefindeth 

 that towe put to fire will prefently become fire, the fame will 

 happen in nature , if we put materiall towe , or fome other 

 body that hath the qualitiesof it, to reall fire , or to fome other 

 fnbftance that is endewed with the vertues of fire : in like 

 manner, if by knowing that -"colours are nothing elfe, but vari- 

 ous mixtures of light and of darknefle in bodies, our difcourfc 

 afliircth us, that by feverali compoundings of thefc extremes, 

 reds, blewes, yellowes, greenes, and all other intermediate 

 colours may be generated j accordingly wee (hall find in ef- 

 fect , that by the feverali minglings of black and white bo- 

 dies ( becaufe they reflecl: or drowne light moft powerfully ) 

 or by interweaving ftreames of pure light and of (hadowes 

 one with another , wee may procreate new colours in bo- 

 dies , and beget new luminous appearances to our eyes : io that 

 kence it apppeareth clearly , that the fame nature is in our under- 

 ftanding, and in the things ; and that the fame ordering, which in 



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