Clariff^Vir, 
Accept nuperrime a Te tranfmijpim D. Leibnicii Theori- 
am Motus Abftra^li ^ de qua judicium meum petttur. 
Duo autem funt qua fuadeant ne illudprajiem^ Alterum^ quod 
res invidiofa videatur de aliorum fcrtptis cenfuram agere: 
ternm^ quod occupatijftmo tempore hue advenerit ^ quoeegrhva-* 
cavit femd atque iterum attentius perlegere^ nedum omnia penf^* 
culatius confiderare. §u@niam vero Tu id expetis , haec paUca 
dicam. Multa fciL inibi content a Ego planh approbo^ ntjubs 
tiliter & (olide dtUa^ quceque Fir urn curiofum ^ cogitabmidum 
indicant. Sipauea jint quibus mn fiatim ajjentiar.ignofcet^ fpet 
ro, vir humaniffimus., Et fpeciatim^ fateor 3 mihi mndum fa* 
tisfaBum eficy ut, primis faltem cogitationibm ^ fiatim affen- 
tiar^ Cohaefionem omnem ex continuo cekrique fed imhfervabili 
particularum motu fieri ( quod ilk Theorise motus Concreti 
fundamentum ponit j ) uti nec pridem , cnm ante aliquot an* 
ms^ Jimilem Quietis ^ Cohiejionis caufam ajftgnaverat Nelius 
nofier. §^d olim aliquando futurum fit ^ pefi rem accuratius 
perpenfam^ nec dicer e pojfum nec provider e^ Interim ego 
nec quicquam tn aliorum prajudicium pronuntio 5 quin liberum 
cuiquefjt, eamquam ratiouimagis confentaneamjudicaverit^fen^ 
tentiam ampleBi^ Vale* Tuus 
JOH* WALLIS. 
An Accompt of [ome Books^ 
I. ADifcourferouchiogthe OFs^JGlNAL OF HVMJN 
LI fEJ{ATVJ{E ^ both PHILOLOGY and PMILOSO- 
FHT'y in two Parts : By Theoph. Gale M. A. Oxford,i669. 
and 1 671. in 
The Bufinefs of this Book is ^ to derive Human Arts 
and Sciences from the Jewifh Church 5 for the doing of 
which the Author profeflech he hath been encouraged by 
confiderable hints and afsiftances of the ^^^j/ig^r/j and of 
Grotiuf^ Foffms Bochartus^ Selden^ Vjljer, Preflen^ and others, 
befidcs the concurrent teftinaonies of many of theAncients. 
Inthe/7r/?part he endeavours to prove, that all Lan^ 
^uages have thek origin and rife from the Hebrew^ inftaO'- 
cing particularly in the Oriental Tongues , as the F/;m- 
cian^ Copthic, Chddaic^ Syriac 5 Arabic ^ Ferfm^ Samaritan 
M ta m and 
