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l!y?0ibt/i/» yet it may much ftrengthen 

 the Arguments drawn from other To- 

 jpicks , and thereby ferve to recommend 

 the Doctrine it felf. For, the ufe of an 

 Hypothefis being to render an intelligible 

 account of the Caufes of the Efft&s ok 

 phenomena propos'd , without eroding 

 the Laws of Nature or other Phenomena, 

 the more numerous and the mtire vari- 

 ous the Particulars are,- whereof fome are 

 explicable by the aflign d Hypothefis , and 

 fome are agreeable to it , or at leaft are 

 not diflbnant from it, the more valuable 

 is the Hypothefis, and the more likely to 

 be true. For 'tis much more difficult, to 

 finde an Hypothefis that is not true which 

 wilUuit with mwy Phenomena* cfpect- 

 ally if they be of various kinds, than but 

 With fevp. And for this Reafon I have 

 fet down among the Instances belonging 

 to particular Qualities fome fuch Experi- 

 ments and Observations, as we are now 

 fpeakingofj fince, although they tfcnot 

 dired proofs of the preferrablenefs of oir 

 Do&iine, yet they may ferve for Confir- 

 mation of it \ though this be not the only 

 or perhaps the chief Reafon of their be- 

 ing mentioned. For whatever 1 thty may be 

 st* Arguments, imce they are matters of 

 fad, I thought it not amifs tt> take this 

 occafioh of preferring them from being 



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