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14. Laftly, in regard to the Ipiritual Ute we ought 
to make of thefe extraordinary Phenomena, or of 
our Inquiries about them I fhall firft obferve, thar 
we find abroad, feveral of thefe Earthquakes this 
Year have been very fatal. In the hft we read of 
at Phihppoli in Thrace , the whole City was deftroy’d, 
and above 4000 Inhabitants kill’d. At home, where 
above half a Score feparate Concuffions have been 
felt, there has not been one Houfc thrown down, 
one Life loft. This ought to infpire us with a very 
ferious Refledion about them. 2. We may obferve, 
that if we did but read the Works of Hippocrates , 
Plato , and his Followers, of Tully, Galen , and the 
like ethic Writers of Antiquity, whilft we ftudy and 
try the AfFedions of Matter, we ihould improve in 
Philofophy, properly fpeaking ; we fhould lift up 
our Minds from thefe earthly Wonders, and difeern 
the celeftial Monitions they prefent to us. 
The original Meaning of the Word Philofophy 
was rightly applied to moral Wifdom : We, who 
have improv’d both, fhould join them both toge- 
gether. By this means we gather the Truth of the 
higheft and mod excellent Philofophy, to be found 
in thofe Volumes of firft Antiquity, which we call 
facred; and wc fhould adore that divine Light which 
they hold forth to us 5 efpecially in a Country where 
the Principles of true Religion are open and undif- 
guifed ; where the eftablilh’d Profeilion of it is ra- 
tional, noble, and lovely s worthy of the moral Go- 
vernor of the World. 
W. Stukely. 
