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CHAP. XXIII, 



DIGRESSION on certain 

 ANOMALOUS ARTS and SCI- 

 ENCES, or (uch as do not di- 

 rectly appertain to Erudition. 



A CCORD1NG to the general idea, and 



-~V. the definition we have given of Univer- 



f,il Erudition, at the beginning of this work, the 



more cxtenfivc any man's knowledge is, the 



more Erudition he may be fa id to have. We 



have already remarked, however, that there are 



kveral fciences which do not direftly appertain to 



the fyflem of Erudition; and it i; of thefe fci- 



cnces and arts, that \vc here propole to fay a 



few words , not fo much with a view of making 



their analyfis, and thereby confounding them with 



thofe that rightly belong to our fyitern, as to 



fhow, that though v not forgot them, yet 



we think, that from their r. ,/y oti^ht to 



, and not confounded with rhoic that 



rightly a; ducc 



v-haos. We flial 1 therefore harcw 



iicm, ar. have 



