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at large, ) but then they look upon diem 

 either as confined to Mechanical Engines, 

 oratleaft but as reaching to very few of 

 Nature's fhmomem, and* for that reafon a 

 uftjit to be received as Phyfical Principles. 

 To remove therefore this grand Prejudice 

 and Obje£ion,vvhich feems to be the chief 

 tjuajg that has kept off Rational Inquirers 

 from clofing with the Mechanical Philo- 

 sophy, it may be very conducive , if not 

 fu|ficient, to propofe fuch Mechanical ac- 

 counts of Particular Qualities themfelvis, 

 as are intelligible and poffible, and ar* a- 

 greeable to the Phenomena whereto they 

 are applied. And to this it is no mojs 

 neceffary that the account propos'd fhould 

 be the trueftand beft that can poflibly be 

 given , than it is to the proving that a 

 Clock is not a&ed by a vital Principle* (as 

 thofe Chimfa thought, who took the hrft, 

 that was brought them out of Europe io% 

 an AnirnaU ) but ads as an Engine, to do 

 more than alfign a Mechanical Structure 

 made up of Wheels, a Spring, a Hammer, 

 and other Mechanical pieces, that will re- 

 gularly fhcw and ftrikc the hour, whether 

 this Contrivance be or be not the very 

 fame with that of the Particular Clock 

 proposed i which may indeed be made to, 

 move either with Springs or Weights, and 

 ?nay conflft of a greater or leffer number qf 



Wheels, 



