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tained, have a real foundat;ioa in Nature^ apd do altogether ex- 
hauft the fame. 2 .Becaufe that.t his api^lauded Series ofFredka- 
induces many iiien to take up,arid acquiefcein the empty 
Shells and Barks of Words, inftead of fincere and good Fruit, 
they caring for little elfefo they can but reckon up fome fine 
Wordsof an arbitrary fignification, that do not imprint any 
clear and diftinS idea in the Mind. 
Further,this Logick delivers not bare Rules with trivial and 
naufeous Examples,but having laid down folidPrd'r^/^^jjit pre- 
fently transfers them to very good Ufe, and accommodates the 
fame to very Inftrudiveand Delightful Examples, taken out 
of a!l fores of real Sciences, whereby they are fo faflen'd in the 
Memory,rhat there they ftick even after the Students have laid 
afide Books of Logick ; So that here may be found both Rules 
of good Logick, and the Ufes of thofe Rules ; which muft 
needs have this excellent EfFeft,that by the help of fuch a Lo- 
gicK as this, ingenious Scholars will be enabled to Judge of 
Sciences; and the Sciences, by way of recompence, will fix 
Logick the deeper in their underftanding. 
Upon occafion,notice is takenby our Author of what is con- 
fiderable in Ariptle's Logick,and what other Writings of his 
are valuable ; from which number he fcruples not to exclude 
his P^j^/fy^j, boldly affirming, that th^y partly teach what's, 
falfe, partly nothing but what we can not be ignorant of. Where 
he a!fb declares in general, that fince we-owe no deference to a- 
nyPhilofophers, but either upon the account of Truth they 
have endeavour'd todifcover, or uponconfideratlonof the e- 
fleem they have gained in the Learn d orb , we cannot be ob- 
liged further to venerate Arijlotle than he ha:h attained Truth, 
nor pay him honor for theXeiienrs delivered by himand-his fol- 
owers, more than to any other part of the Learn d World that 
labor in the fearchof Triuh,and find caufe todiffent from Him. 
When our Author comes to treat of Ratioeinatign^ he advi- 
fes his Reader to confider ; Whether he, ought to fet fo much 
by the Forms of Syllogizing as hath been done hitherto 3 and 
Whether uioft Errors that entangle men, do not fpring.from ' 
thence, that they build their Difcourfes upon falfe Principles, 
rather than they deduce illegitimate confequences from true 
Principles^it hapni.og but feIdom,that we are impofed upon by 
fuch a Ratiocination as is therefore only unfound, becaufe 'tis 
made 
