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defire that others together with themfelves, would make 

 farther Inquiry ', thefe furcly have meant well, but per- 

 formed little , for they feem to have proceeded upon pro- 

 bable gfroundsonly, being wheeled about in a vertiginous 

 maze of Arguments, and by a promifcuous Itcenfe of In- 

 quiry^ have indeed loofned the finews of fevere Inquifiti' 

 on : nor hath any of all thefe with a juft patience, and fuf- 

 ficient cxpe^lance attended the Operationr of Nature^ and 

 the fttcceffes of Experience. ^ Some again have cmbarqu'd 

 themfelves in the Sea of Experiments, and become almoft 

 Mechanical h but in the Experience it felf, they have pra- 

 ^lifeda roving manner of Inqniry^ which they do not in 

 a regular courfe conftantly purfue. § Nay, many pro- 

 pound to themfelves , certain petty Tasks, taking them- 

 felves to have accomplilht a great performance, if they cad 

 but extra^l fome one Invention by a manage as poor as im- 

 pertinent \ for none rightly and fuccefsfully fearch the 

 nature of any thing to the life in the Thing it felf, but af- 

 ter a painful and diligent variation of Experiments, not 

 breaking off there, proceeds on, finding ftill emergent 

 matter oi hithei Difco'very. k And it is an Error of fpe- 

 cialnote, that theinduftry beftowcd in Experiments, hath 

 prefently, upon the firft acccfs into the Bufintfs, by a too 

 forward and unfeafonable Defire, feiled upon fome de- 

 fign'd operation 5 I mean fought after. Frn6iifcra non L«- 

 cifera^ Experiments of %Jfe and not Experiments of Light 

 and Difcot^ery : not imitating the divine method which 

 created the firftday > ight only, and aUjWTd it one entire 

 Day, producing no Materiate vporh^the fame day butde- 

 fcended to their Creation the days following. § As for 

 thofe who have given the preeminence unto Logich^^ and 

 are of opinion that the fureft Guards for Sciences vaxxik. 

 be procur'd from thence i they have truly and wifely 

 difccrncd, that the mind of man, and Intellective Faculty 

 left unto it felf, may defervedly be fufpeCled. But the 

 remedy i^ too weak for the difeafe, and is it felf not exempt 

 from Diftemperature i for the Logich^ in force, though it 

 may be rightly accommodated unto Matters Civil and Po' 

 pular Sciences, which confift in Dijconrfe and Opinion j yet 

 it comes far fliort of penetrating the fabtilty of 'Nature'-, 



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