due care to ered a Pharos for a Caution againft undifcem’d dan- 
g er S. 
By Anatomy, we have fometimes enter’d into the Chambers and 
Cabinets of Animal Fun&ions , to find many Meanders and 
changeable Varieties , and the immediate Organs and Conduits of 
Life and Senfation. 
As for the Growth of Arts and Inventions , I think , it may 
juftly be faid . That thefe our Entries fometimes afiift and pro- 
mote their Improvements. And the fame will hereafter remain 
faithful Records to fliew , By what Reps and degrees , and by what 
Effays, Emulations 3 and Encouragements thefe Noble Arts ad- 
vanced to perfection. And a pundual information of thefe Gra- 
dual Precedes may be inftrudtive to promote other Inventions, 
And the Wife will confider it, at whateafierates they obtained 
Monthly Advices of the Defigns and Succeftes of Induftrious and 
Eminent Perfons , and by the fame means came to know as much* 
as was purchafed at their great charges and afliduous labour. Of 
which Arts as they are now improved, and dill improving,! prefume 
I need not fpare to fay, That they would have obliged an Alex- 
ander ,or a Solomon , and I muft avouch with confidence , T hat they 
would have raifed Acclamations , Applaufes , and Admiration of 
moft, and have provoked them to refund full Rivers of Treafures 
in Juft Rewards , and extraordinary Atchievements 0 
Neither is it much amifs , that there are yet feme , who do 
prefer the darknefs of old Heathenifme before this Noon-light* 
Otherwife, the next Age might hardly believe, that Men pre- 
tending to Wit , Prudence, and Learning , would ever make fuch 
ftrange Oppositions againft their own great Emolument and Ac- 
commodations: Andfo the Vertuous might bedeprived of a fair 
beam of the future Glory, due to their Memories for their un- 
changeable Refolutions,as unconcern’d in fcoffing Difcourfes, and 
(landing firm as Rocks againft the dafhes of foaming Difputants. 
And truly , they do much oblige us 5 in that they are pleafedby 
their frets , and eager contentions 5 and by their fruitlefs and ob- 
ftreperous Verbofity 3 to make themfelves a foil , to fet oft the 
Serene Luftre of the real and obliging performances of the Experi- 
mental Philofophers. 
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