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thofe that are rendrcd by Others^ Not for any Excellency of his 

 own Wit, (as his Lordmip is wont to fay ) but inrefpea: of, 

 his continuall Converfaiion with Natures and Experience, He 

 did confider likewife, that by this Addition of Caufes, mens 

 mindes ( which make fo much hafte to find out the Caufes of 

 things;) would not think (hemfelvcs utterly loir, in a vaft 

 wood of Experience, but ftay uponthefe Caufes, (fuchas they 

 are ) a little, till true Scfames may be more fully difcovered. 

 i haveheardhis Lordfhjpfay alfo, that one great rea (on, why he 

 would not put thefe Particulars into any exact Method, 

 ( though he that looketh attentively into them, (hall find that 

 thcyhavea fecretOrder) was b^caufe he conceived that other 

 men would now think that they could do the like - And fo 

 go on with a further Collections which if the Nfethoah&d been 

 £xt,d, many would have defpaired to attain by Imitation, As 

 for his lordmips love of Order, Jean rcferre any Man to his 

 Lordmips Latin Book, De Augmmis Scientwum • which (if 

 ray: (uigmentbeany filing > is 'written in the Exadeft Order, 

 ibn . knowfrny Wntrng to be. I will conclude with an ufuall 

 fpcich ot his Lordfliips, 1 hat this Woik ' of his Natural Bfiory, 

 is the ? orld r as G O D made it, and not as men have made it ; 

 For that it hath nothing if Imagination* 







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