C ^74 ) 
Of MeJicks alfo he determines nothing, as to Anci- 
ent and Modern Methods of Pradice, only allows Hip^ 
pocrates to have been a very great Genius, perhaps cot 
equalled by any Pl?yfician that have ccme fince : Yet 
confidering how much Botanicks, Chymiftry, and Ana- 
tomy have been enlarged, he thinks that Modern Theo- 
ries of Difeafes are much more valuable, than Ancient 
ones, for want of thofe helpSjCould poflibly be. {Ch^p.i^,) 
In fpeaking to Ancient and Modern Methods of Phllor 
fophizing^ he gives the preference to the latter; bccaufe 
no Principles of Nature are there allowed, but v\hat are 
in themfelves intelligible; and the bufinels of forming 
Parties is now in a manner out of doors, and Mat he- 
matical P^cafonings are confiantly urged as valid v^ays of 
Proof, in all Phyfical Enquiries where they cza le brought 
in : Hereupon he takes occafion to eriarge upon ihe 
Deftgnof the ROYAL SOCIETY, andhints at 
the great things which its Members have effefJed to- 
wards the compleating of Phyfical Knowledge. {Ch. 
Having gone through thofe Sciences w hich lye equally 
open to Men of all Ages to make Difcoverics in, he goes 
on to thofe which have their whole Foundation in Anti- 
quity, wherein by confequence the Moderns feem to 
have no Pretence to a Comparifon ; fuch as Thildhigy 
nnd Divinity. Yet he fays, that if we confider how 
much Printing has altered the flaie of Learnings haw 
wide a thing Antiquity is in all its compa(s, how many 
things rarely meeting in one Man, are requifite to rnalce 
a Man a through Critick ; we ought to conclude, that 
though every Age of Antiquity knew ir felf better than 
we can pretend to know it, yet in the grofs, the 
gerSy the Fo/Jiiis's, the Vjhsrs^ the Seldens, the Bocharts, 
and fiich Modern Philoiogers have had a greater extent 
of Ancient Learning, than any fingle Man among the 
Ancients could poffibly have. {Chap. 17 J 
And 
