Of OXFORD'S HtXE. 2% 
190. In which, though 'tis true the number of Radicals 'axq 
near 3000, yet are they fo ordered by the help of a natural method, 
that they may be moreeafily learned and remembred than 1000 
words otherwife difpofed of, upon which account they may be 
reckoned but as 1000, For the Signa (they are fo methodical- 
ly contrived) they may be all learned in lefs than an hour, were 
they twice as many ; the difficulty therefore muft be in the figna- 
ta^ but thefe being drawn up in fchemes^ fo that one notion will 
clearly depend upon another, they feem to be a perfeS: artificial 
memory^ rather than require any help to be remembred. Not- 
withftanding it leaves a large fcope, enough for derivation and com- 
pofitionj as may be feen by the Tables^ where feveral words, though 
no Synonoma's to it, may be made off from a Primitive^ as Queen ^ 
Crcvon^ Scepter^ Throne^ from the Radical [^King~\ ; and fo from the 
Primitive^ \_fieef~] are made off, ram^ evpc^ lamb^ weather., mutton^ 
bleat^ fold, flocK-^ fiepherd-) is'C which compofitions are clear, 
though the greateft difficulty of the Language confifts in thefe. 
191. Yet I (liall not offer to determine which of thefe is to be 
preferred, leaving that wholly to the Readers judgment, who may 
confult both Treatifes : It being fufficient for me, that a Vniverfal 
Charafier and Philofophical Language can be no more reckoned a- 
mongik the Vefider at a of Learning, and that the defeft was firft 
fupplyed here at Oxford ; the Contrivances of both being firft 
founded here, and both grounded upon rational and folid princi- 
ples, with greater advantages of facility, than can be believed 
poffible to any that have not made tryal. And this is all con- 
cerning Letters and Language, but ihzt j^obn Bafmfloke alfo an Ox- 
ford man, Figuras Gr^corum numerales in Angliam portavit, isr ea- 
rum notitiam fuisfamiliaribus fignificavit, de quibws figuris hoc maxi^ 
me admirandum-, quod unica figure quilibetnumerm fignificatur^ quod 
non ejl in Latino vel in ^Igorifmo 
192. In Logich^lht fubtile Jobannes Duns Scotm, Fellow of Mer- 
ton College, was the Father of the Sed of x\\t Reals \ and his 
Scholar ^ Gullelmud Occham, fomtimes falfly printed Holran, of 
the fame Houfe, Father of the Seft of the Nominals, betwixt whom 
as the ftory goes, there falling out a hot Difpute ^Scotm being 
thenDe^z^of the College, 2nd Occham zBacbelor Fellow) where- 
d Matth. Paris, Hlft. Angl.hi yinno i2-^2. pag, 835. Edit. Watfiana. ' Vid. Johannis Lclandi col- 
le&anea de Viris Illufiribus, 
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