OfOXFO c BS>~SHl : RE. 28* 



190. In which, though 'tis true the number of Radicals are 

 near 3000, yet are they fo ordered by the help of a natural method \ 

 that they may be moreeafily learned and remembred than 1000 

 words otherwife difpofed of, upon which account they may be 

 reckoned but as 1000, For the Signa (they are fo methodical- 

 ly contrived) they may be all learned inlefs than an hour, were 

 they twice as many ; the difficulty therefore muft be in the figna- 

 ta, but thefe being drawn up in fchemes, fo that one notion will 

 clearly depend upon another, they feem to be a perfect artificial 

 memory, rather than require any help to be remembred. Not- 

 withftanding it leaves a large fcope, enough for derivation and com- 

 paction, as may be feen by the Tables, where feveral words, though 

 no Sjnonoma's to it, may be made off from a Primitive, as Queen, 

 Crown, Scepter, Throne, from the Radical [King] ; and fo from the 

 Primitive, \_Jbeef\ are made off, ram, ewe, lamb, weather, mutton, 

 bleat, fold, flock, Jbepherd-, (src. which compofitions are clear, 

 though the greateft difficulty of the Language confifts in thefe. 



191. Yet I ftiall not offer to determine which of thefe is to be 

 preferr'd, leaving that wholly to the Readers judgment, who may 

 confult both Treatises : It being fufficient for me, that a Vniverfal 

 Character and P bilofophical Language can be no more reckoned a- 

 mongft the Defiderata of Learning, and that the defect was firft 

 fupplyed here at Oxford; the Contrivances of both being firft 

 founded here, and both grounded upon rational and folid princi- 

 ples, with greater advantages of facility, than can be believed 

 poffible to any that have not made tryal. And this is all con- 

 cerning Letters and Language, but that/o/fa Bafmiloke alfo an Ox- 

 ford man, Figuras Gr^corum numerates in Angliam portavit, is ea- 

 rum notitiam fuh familiar ibws fignificavit, de quibus flgurh hoc maxu 

 me admirandum-) quodunicafiguraquilibetnumerwfignificatur, quod 

 non eft in Latino vel in Algorifmo d . 



192. In Logic k. the tubule Johannes Duns Scotut, Fellow ofMer- 

 ton College, was the Bather of the Seel: of the Reals; and his 

 Scholar e Gulielmws Occham, fomtimes falfly printed Holran, of 

 the fame Houfe, Father of the Seel: of the Nominals, betwixt whom 

 as the ftory goes, there falling out a hot Difpute (Scotu* being 

 thenDean of the College, and Occham zBacbelor Fellow) where- 



* Matth. Paris, tijft Angl.inAnno 1252. pag. 835. Edit. Watfiana. * VtJ. Johannis Lclandi col- 

 fr&anea dt Viris Illnfiribus. 



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