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lets Difquifitions; ’tis plain they fpeak £o unlike Scholars, 
as not to require any further Reply. 
I cannot conclude without taking Notice of one Ca- 
lumny that has been whifper’d about by Men of Paffion 
or Intreague, viz. That this Book is defign’d to ferve a 
certain Intereft. I therefore think my felf oblig'd in Ju- 
ftice, to certifie to the Publick, that after a careful peru- 
fal of all the Parts of this Work, I cannot difcern a Syl- 
lable any where that in the lead tends to_ favour any 
Party, or is any way concern’d in any National Diftin&i- 
on $ and that the Author every where difcovers himfelf 
a Man of Candor and above Partiality. I have not, I 
confefs, had the Happincfs of a Perfonal Acquaintance 
with him, but 1 prefume I may, as our Bleffed Saviour 
dire&s, Judge of a Tree by its Fruit . 
LO^CDOS^ 
Printed for Beuj. Watford , Printer to the Royal So- 
ciety , at the Prince’s -Arms in St J vfi Ciiarch* 
yard. 1707. 
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