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the reafonablenefs of this Mr. Lawfon^s no- 

 tions, which were now become his own ; 

 and in order thereto, fo far advances very 

 rightly, in faying, " every diminution is a 



reinvigoration of a plant's juice, feldom 

 " otherwife arriving to their full altitude 

 Again — " it is certain that trees governed 

 " by this method, will encreafe their value 



more, in ten or twelve years, than fuch 

 " as are negleded in forty/' A large com- 

 putation to be thence made ! ftill to thefe 

 notions he accommodated his practice « 



By this, and like wife by other circum-* 

 ftances, it appears that both of them had 

 fallen into the very fame mifcondudt, that 

 my Lord Bacon accufes a greater man than 

 either of them, viz, Ariflotle^ who, fays he, 

 " did not ufe and employ experiments, for 



the erefting of his theories, but having 

 " arbitrarily pitched his theories, his man- 



ner was to force experience to fuffragate 

 *^ and yield countenance to his precarious 

 " propofitions/'~But to demonftrate their 

 fuppofed reafonablenefs of fuch philofophy, 

 neither of thefe two good old men referred 

 their readers to any vijible inflances of their 

 fucceflcs of that kind of pradlice on the 



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