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this is done, to free it from the Cavil of the Idle , and Malici- 
ous 5 and from xfoAjealoufas of Pmm&i faterefii jw all which 
the Author {lie ws to have nothing but Humour, or Envy ^ pre- 
judice^ or Miftake , to bear themfelves upon, 
^The promoting of ..Experiments.) according to the Model 
ot th £ J{pyal S ociety, will he:fo far from injuring Education 
or from being dangerous: to the Qnivtrfiies, that it will both 
introduce many things of greater concernment and benefit, 
co fupply the place of what may be laid afide $ and be main- 
ly conducive to recover that Divine Dignity of Humane Na- 
inre^ which confifts in the Jfnowledge ofFruth, and the Doing of 
Good. 
Ihe Fir ft years of Men being fecured by this new Expert* 
mental way; it is made out to all Profejffions and T radical lives ^ 
that they can receive no ill Impreffions from it, but that it will 
be the moft beneficial and, proper ftudyfpr their Preparation 
and Dire ion. Whereas other Learning is charged to con- 
fift in Arguing and Difputing ; and to be apt to make our Minds 
Ibftyrana -Romantic^ j prefumptuous "and obftinate,; averfe 
from apra&tcal Courfe,, and unable to bear the difficulties 
of Addons Propenfe to things, which are no where in ufe 
in the world 3 and carelefs of their own prefect times, by do- 
ting on the paft : This Experimental Philofophy will turn men 
to Tryals and Works; cure their minds of Eymantickfvf Filing, 
by fhewing all things familiarly to them, juft as large as they 
are 1 free them from perverfity, by not permitting them to be 
too peremptory in their Condufons : accuftome their hands to 
things, which have a near refemblance to the bufiaefs of life: 
and draw away theihadows, which either enlarge or darken 
humane affairs : And of the Crafty , the Formal and the Pru- 
dent /' the ufual Titles, by which men of bufinefs are wont to 
be diftinguiffied ;) Our Author refembles the Crafty , to the 
Emperic\ in Ehslofbphy 5 the Formal , to the meer Speculative 
Philofopher • butthe 'Prudent man , to him, who proceeds on 
a conftaot and folid courfe of Experiments : the one in Civil life ^ 
rejecting neither the wifdom of Ancient , nor that of Modern 
times ; the other in Philofophy , having the fame reverence for 
former Ages, and regard for the prefenti both railing their 
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