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due care to eredl a Fhms for a Caution againft undifcem'd 
dangers. 
By Jmtomyweh^ve fometimes enterM into theChambeis 
and Cabinets of Animal Vun&ions^ to find many Meanders and 
changeable Varietics^and the immediate Organs and Conduits of 
Life and Senfation, 
As for the Growth of Arts and InventionSy I think^ it may 
juftlybefaid. That thefe our Entries fometimes affift and pro- 
mote their Improvements. And the fame will hereafter remain 
faithful Records to fhew. By what fteps and degrees^ and by what 
Eflays, Emulations, and Encouragements thefe Noble Arts ad- 
vanced to perfe(5tion. And a pundual information of thefe Gra- 
dual ProcefTeSj may be inftrudive to promote other Inventions, 
And the Wife will confider it;, at what eafie rates they obtained 
MoneihlyAdvica oiih^Ddiom and Succeffes of Induftriousand 
Eminent Perfons^and by the fame means came to know as muc!* , 
as was purchafed at their great charges and affiduous labour. Of 
which Arts as they are now improved^ and ftill improving, I pre« 
fume I need not fpare to fay. That they would have obliged an 
Alexander, ox a Solomon, and I muft avouch with confidence. That 
they would have raifed Acclamations, Applaufes^and Admiration 
ofmoftjandhaveprovoked themto refund full Rivers of Trea- 
fures in JuftRewardsjand extraordinary Atchievements, 
Neither is it much amifs, that there are yet fome^ who do 
prefer the darknefs of old Heathenifme before the Noon-light. 
Otherwifejthe next Age might hardly believe, that Men pre- 
tending to Wit, Prudence^ and Learnings would ever make fuch 
ftrange Oppofitions againft their own great Emolument and Ac- 
commodations: And fo the Vertuous might be deprived of zfair 
beamoi the futiire Glory, due to their Memories for their un* 
'changeable Refolucions^as unconcern'd in fcoffing Difcourfes^ and 
ftanding firm as Rocks againft thedaft^esof foaming Difputanrs, 
And truly^ they do much oblige us, in that they are pleafed by 
their frets, and eager contentions, arid by their fruitlefs and ob- 
ftreperous Verbofity, to make themfelves a foil, to fet off the 
Serene Luftrc of the real and obliging performances of the Experi- 
mental Philofopheis, 
And 
