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fue this method, of fearching into the nature 

 of things, from the great fuccefs that has 

 attended any attempts of this kind. 



Thus, in relation to thofe Planets which 

 revolve about our Sun, the great Philofo- 

 pher of our age has, by numbering and 

 meafuring, difcovered the exact proportions 

 that are obferved in their periodical revo- 

 lutions and diftances from their common 

 centres of motion and gravity : And that 

 God has not only comprehended the duft 

 cf the earth in a meafure^ and weighed the 

 mountains in fcales, and the hills in a ba~ 

 lance \ Ifai. xl. J2. but thathealfo holds the 

 vaft revolving Globes, of this our folar Sy- 

 ftem, moft exactly poifed on their common 

 centre of gravity. 



And if we reflect: upon the difcoveries 

 that have been made in the animal (Econo- 

 my, we fhall find that the moft confider- 

 able and rational accounts of it have been 

 chiefly owing to the ftatical examination 

 of their fluids, viz. by inquiring what quan- 

 tity of fluids, and folids diflblved into fluids, 

 the animal daily takes in for its fupport 

 and nourishment : And with what force, 

 and different rapidities, thofe fluids are car- 

 ried 



