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CHAP. VL 



AN D this leads me to a further 

 ConGderation, which makes me 

 look upon the Chymifts explications 

 as not deep and radical enough ; and 

 it is this D that, when they tell us , for 

 inftance, that the fufiblenefs of bo- 

 dies proceeds from Sulphur, in cafe 

 they fay true , they do but tell us 

 what material Ingredient 'tis that be- 

 ing mingled with and difpers'd 

 through the ether parts of a body, 

 makes it apt to melt : But this does 

 not intelligibly declare what it is 

 that maktfs a portion of matter fu- 

 Cble ? and how the fulphureous Ingre- 

 dient introduces that difpofttion into 

 the reft of the mafs, wherewith 'tis 

 commixt or united. And yet 'tis fuch 

 explications as thefe* that an inquifi- 

 ttye Naturalift chiefly looks af ter^and 

 which I therefore call Vhilofophical. 

 And to fhew, that there may be more 

 jFontal explications, I (hall only 



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