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Aying bad the Etonor to be continually with 
a1 my Lord, in compiling of this Work; and | 
=sewy (| tobe employed therein, Ihave thought it not | 
ve ot Ee. amifs, (with his Lordfbips good leave and 
eee) [iking) for the better fatisfaction of ihofethat | 
ge readit, to make known fomewhat of bs Lord/bips inten- 
ions, touching the ordering and publifbing of the fame. I 
have heard his Lordfhip often fay; Tharif be fhould have | 
| Jerved the glory of his own Name, be bad been better not to | 
| have publifhed ths Natural Hiltory ;° for it may feem an | 
indigefted heap of Particulars » and cannot bave that luftre 
which Books caft into Methods, have: But that he refolved | 
| to preferthe good of Men, and that which mighs bel fecure | 
it, before any thing that might haye velationto bim(elf. e4nd, 
| be kue'lw well, that there was noother way open to unloofe Mens | 
| mindes, being bound; and (asit were) eMMaleficiate, bythe | 
charms of deceiving Notions and Theories ; and thereby | 
made impotent for Generation of W orks: But onely nowhere | 
| todepart fromthe Senfe and clear experience, but to'keep clofe | 
‘| toit, efpecially in the beoinning. Befides, this Natural | 
| Hiftory was 4Debt of his, being defigned and fetdown for | 
4 third Part of the Ynftauration. J have alfoheard bis | 
Lordhip difcourfé, That Aten (no doubt) will shintkmany | 
of the Experiments contained in this Colletion, to'be Ful. | 
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