D E D I CA 1 1 0 N. vii 
As the beautiful Fabrick of 
this World was chiefly framed 
for and adapted to the Ufe of 
Man, fo the greater infight 
we get into the Nature and 
Properties of Things, fo much 
the more Beneficial will they 
be to us, the more will our real 
Riches thereby increafe, the 
more alfo will Man’s original 
Grant of Dominion over the 
Creatures be inlarged. 
YourMajefty’s Subjects of 
Great Britain are allowed by. 
the candid Confeflion of other 
Nations, to excell in experi- 
mental Philofophy, which has 
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