CHAP. IX. 



NOtwithftanding all that I have 

 been obliged to fay to the Dis- 

 advantage of the Chymical Princi- 

 ples, in reference to the Explication 

 of Qualities^ I would not be thought 

 to grant, that the Peripatetic fy have 

 reafon to triumph^as if their four Ele- 

 ments afforded a better Theory of 

 Qualities. For,if I had^together with 

 Jeifure enough to perform fuch a 

 Task,any obligation to undertake it, 

 I prefume^it would not be difficult 

 to fhew^that the Aristotelian Doftrine 

 about particular Qualities is liable to 

 forae of the fame Obje&ions with the 

 Chymical, and to fome others nojefs 

 confiderablejand that,to derive all the 

 Vh&nomtna their Do&rine ought to 

 folve from Subjlantial Forms and real 

 Qualities Elementary 5 is to impofe on 

 us a Theory more barren and pre- 

 carious than that of the Spagy- 

 riftsa 



That 



