PREFACE. 
44 and Education; its Policies, Hoftilities 
44 and Alliances, with the Frame, and Tex- 
44 ture of its inward and outward Parts, 
55 and particularly thofe that diftinguiflh it 
44 from'all other Animals, with their pecu- 
44 liar Aotitudes for the State of Beinsc in 
44 which Providence has placed them, it 
44 would be one of the be ft Services their 
44 Studies could do Mankind, and not a 
44 little redound to the Glory of the all- 
44 wife Contriver. 3 * 
How far I have anfwered the Recommen¬ 
dation, is left to thejudgment of theReader- 
It maynot, however, be improper to mention 
that it is impoffible to write an exadt or 
perfedt Hiftory of this Kind; becaufe a ' 
Number of Particulars will efcape our niceft 
Obfervations, and leave Room for future 
Difcoveries. Upon this Reafon my * Lord 
Bacon does not approve of the hiftorical 
Method of writing in Philofophy •, and hence 
* Bacon's Phllofophical Works, Vol. i. p. 70. 
