Z84. The Natural Hiftory 



out obliging the Learner to carry in his memory all the Predica- 

 mental Series of its fellow Species ; fo that names of common ufe 

 may be known, pafling by others that are notfo, which to Learn- 

 ers is as great an encouragement, as the obtruding things not ne- 

 cefiary is a difcouragement to them. According to this Inftitu- 

 tion, he publifhed a Specimen called Ars Signorum, in the Year 

 1660. containing but 500 Radicals, all the V articles being brought 

 from the Radicalsby which they are refolved ; every Radical, ex- 

 cept the genera intermedia being Monofyllables , and all things elfe 

 being made off from theft by compofition, which is allowed here in 

 its fulleft latitude,- Quidlibet cum quolibetpro re nata, provided the 

 fimple terms\oofe nor change nothing of fignification, by compofi- 

 tion. 



188. But the Reverend and Learned Dr. John Wilkins, who 

 throughly underftood and commended his labors in the former 

 part of the work, thinking perhaps that this way of compofition 

 would produce too long words, or that the various conceptions of 

 Men, muft needs caufe different compofitions and defcriptions of the 

 fame things , and thence unavoidably bring mifunderftandings 

 (which yet Mr. Dalgarno thought might be avoided by ftating of 

 notions and a collection of Formula's') did not approve of this In- 

 Jliiution ; declaring his judgment to be, that all the/pecies of Na- 

 tural Bodies (according as he owns, was fuggefted to him by that 

 moft learned and excellent perfon Dr. Seth Ward, the prefent Bi- 

 fhop of Salisbury * ) ought to be provided for as Radicals, by a 

 regular enumeration of them according to the Theories of the 

 Schools. 



1 89. Nor did he approve of his rejection of a Character, lince 

 a graceful one might be contrived more proper for Brachygraphy, 

 and equally convenient for many Nations, with the common al- 

 phabet : Nor of his bringing the Particles from the Radicals by 

 which they are refolved ; judging perhaps their compofition, be- 

 fide the reducing fome of them handfomly, more troublefom than 

 that, of learning a fnall, yet fufficient number of them difpofed 

 regularly infchemes, and noted with fmaller Characters than thofe 

 of Integrals. All which may be collected from the learned Effay to- 

 wards a real Character, or Philofophical Language, put forth by that 

 highly ingenious perfon then Dean of Rippon, An. 1668. 



* Effay towards a Real Character, in the Epiftle to the Reader. 



190. In 



