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there was no other way open, to vnloofe Mens 
\ mindes, being bound ;and (as it were) Malefi-j 
date, by the Charmes of decerning Notions, 
and Theories * and thereby made Impotent far 
Generation of VVorkes • butonely no where 
to depart from the Senfe, and deare experience • 
But to keepe clofe to it, efpecially in the begin- 
| ning : Befides, this 3\(aturall Hijiory was a 
Debt of his, being Defigned and fer downe for 
a third part of the fnjlauration . I haue alio 
heard his Lordfhip difcourfe, that Men (no 
Doubt) will thinke many of the Experiments' 
contained in this Collection , to bee Vulgar 
and TriuiallMeane and Sordid • Curious and 
Fruideffe: And therefore hee wifheth, that they 
would haue perpetually before their Eyes, what * 
is now in doing; And the Difference betweene 
this 3\(jtturall Hiftory , and others. For thofe 
3\(jturall Hijiories , which are Extant, being 
gathered for Delight and Vfe, are full of plea- 
j fant Defcriptions and Pictures . andalfed and 
j feek after Admiration, Rarities, and Secrets. But 
contrariwife, the Scope which his Lordfhip in- 
tendeth, is to write fuch a 3\(aturall Hiflory , as 
may be Fundamental! to theEredting and Buil¬ 
ding of a true 'Philofophy : For the illumination 
of the Enderfianding $ the Extracting of zAxiomesy 
and the producing of many Noble Worker, 
&n<\EffeBs. For hee hopeth, by this m^anes, 
to acquit Himfelfe of that, for which hee takedi 
