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On thefe principles, the Ariftotelian Lo- 
gicians difputed with great fubtilty, and to 
very little purpofe, in every Univerfity in 
Europe, till about the year 1630, when Des 
Cartes publifhed his Philofophy, which, in a 
little time, rofe into reputation on the ruins 
of Ariftotle. 
A great variety of books on Logick, tran- 
flated or tranfcribed from Ariftotle and Des 
Cartes, were written and publifhed in the 
laft century. Of the prefent century I re- 
collect no book of any note on this fubjecl, 
except Watts and Duncan^ both in our own 
language. The laft of thefe, I underftand, 
is the book now generally recommended by 
the Tutors at Cambridge, to be read by ftu- 
dents of the firft year. It has fome merit 
in point of arrangement -, but it wants per- 
fpicuity; it contains many unnecefTary re- 
petitions, and is frequently inaccurate even 
in point of grammar. Why this art, which 
' in our Univerfities is never publickly exer- 
cifed but in Latin, fhould be ftudied in 
Englifh, I cannot underftand. Perhaps you 
will aik, to what purpofe is it ftudied at all ? 
We muft not be too ready with our cut 
bono? The Logick of the Peripatetics, I 
confefs, is little better than a ufelefs jargon ; 
and 
