" We content ourselves with the knowledge of the tongues, on a little skill in 

 philology, or history perhaps, and antiquity, and neglect that which to me seems 

 more material, I mean Natural History, and the Works of the Creation : I do not 

 discommend, or derogate from those other studies : I should betray mine own 

 ignorance and weakness should I do so ; I only wish they might not altogether 

 justle out, and exclude this. I wish that this might be brought in fashion among 

 us." RAY, The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works i,f the Creation, 



Part i. p. 197 8 : Fifth Edit. Lond. 1709. 



