his Preface. i y 



our own Reputation alfo , that no man imagine that we 

 have projected in our minds Ibme flight fupcrficial notion 

 of thcfe Defig}7s •, and that they are of the nature of thofe 

 things, which \wg^ conXdDefirej and which we accept on- 

 ly as good wiJJyes. For they are fuch as without aueftion, 

 are within the power and poffibility of men to coinpafs, 

 unlefs they be wanting to themfclves 5 and hereof, we for 

 our parts, have certain and evident demonftration ; for 

 we come not hither , as Angnres , to viedfnre Coutitries in 

 our mind ^ for Diifination •-, but as Captains ■> to ini>ade 

 them-, for a conqneji. And this is the Firji Part of our 

 Works. 



^ Thus having pafTed over Ancient Sciences, in the P. II, 

 next place we enable humane Intellect to fail through^ 

 U' here fore to the Second Part is defigned the DoBrine touch- 

 ing more founds and perfeci nfe of Keafon^ in the inquiry 

 of Things , and the true ajfjiances of the underfianding ; 

 that hereby (fo far as the condition of humanity and mor- 

 tality will fuffer) the Intelled, may be elevated ^ and am- 

 plified with a faculty, capable to conquer the dark, and 

 deeper fecrets of Nature. And the Art^ we here fet down, 

 which we are wont to call, The Interpretation of Nature , 

 is a kind of Lo^'/cZ^, though very much, and exceeding 

 different. That c/^/^^r Loj^/^^ profefles the Preparation 

 and Contrivance of aids and forces for the nndetftanding, 

 herein they confpire , but it clearly differs from the Po- 

 pular, fpecially in three things, namely, in the end, in the 

 order of De monflrating^ and, in the frji difclofures to Inqui- 

 ry. § For the End propounded in this our Science is, that 

 theremay be found out not Arguments, but Arts^ not 

 things Confentaneous to Principles, but even Principles 

 themfelves 5 not probable reafons, but defignations and 

 indications of works j wherefore from, a different intenti- 

 on follows a different effeft : for there , an Adverfary is 

 cuftreffed atid vanquifht by Difputation, here by nature, 

 the thing done. ^ And with jhis End accords the nature 

 and order of their DenionUrations : For in 'vulgar Logich^^ 

 almoftall the pains is imuloyed about Syllogifm ; as for 

 IndnSiiony the DialeSiicJ{s feem fcarce ever 10 have taken 

 it into any ferious confidcration, flightlv palling it over 



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