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Show Book IV. ———————— eee - inf fo much Underflanding, as only to teach them how t ‘he Ambitious: The Flattering of whom, is fomewhat like the Tickling of Children, till they fall a Dancing. But I allo know, that Your Lordthip unconcernerh Your felf as much, in what I even now fpake; as Cefar did himfelf, whenhisSouldiers began to ftyle him King. Foras hefaid, Non Rex, fed Cafar: So let Your Lordthip be but once nan’d, and all that follows, is but a Tautology to what You are already known tobe. Your being Prefident of the Royal Society , Your being the Firlt that was Chofen, and Chofen A DISCOURSE Read before the ROYAL SOCIETY Decemb. 10. 1674. byfo Knowing aPrince ; becomes foreal a Panegyrick to Your Lordhip, asdeaveth Verbal ones without any found. Whence, my Lord, Ihave a third Reafom moft naturally Concerning the emergent, which is,That I dare to fubmit my jelf, ds to what I have hereafter[aid, to Your Lordthips Cenfure. NATURE, CAUSES, and POWER You being fo able andjuft an Arbiter betwixt the fame and all thofe Per- fons therein concern'd ; that You can neither be deceived, nor corrupted, to make a Fudgment in any Point, to the Injury of either. Andtruly, my Lord, wereit only froma Principle offelfIntere/t, yet I couldnot defire itfhould be otherwife. For the MIXTURE. World, if it lives, will certainly grow as much more knowing than it is; as it is now more, than it was heretofore. So <7] A VING the honourto perform the Task of @))| this day 5 I fhall endeavour to conform to the that we have as little Reafon to defpife Antiquity ; as we can have willingnefs, that we our elves fhould be defpifed by Pofterity. Phylofophy, which this Society doth profefs 5 which is, Reafoning grounded upon Experiment, | and the Common Notions of Senfe. The former being, withoutthe latter, too fubtle and intan- Yet fome difference there isto be made ; viz. betwixt thofe of all Ages, who have been modeftly ignorant 5 and thofe who have thought, or pretended, that they were Omnifcient. if knowing andacknowledging that they were Ignorant ; have as fenfe, they did conjure all Mankind notto offer at the knowing any more than themJelves. Uponthe whole, my Lord, Idefire not You fhould be a Pa- tron, any further than You are a Judge. gible the latter without the former, too grof Or yet not been contented to be [o ; unlefs, with asgood manners, For if this fall Effay hash defervedthe leaft acceptance, Iam fure, that in I am, being one, You will be both. MyLord, Your Lord/bips moft Faithful and Obedient Servant, NEHEMFAH GREW, ; j and unmanageable: but both together, bearing a true analogy to our felves ; who are neither Angels, nor meer Animals, but Men. The Subjeé I have chofen to {peak of, is Mixture. Whereof, that our Difcourfe may be the moreconfiffent, and the better intelligible 5 all I have to fay, fhall be ranged into this Method 5 wiz. 1, Firft, I fhall give a brief account of the received Doérixe of Mixture. 2. Next, lay down fome Propofitions of the Principles whereof all Mixed Bodies confift. 3. Then, open the true Nature of Mixture; or fay, What it is. 4. And thenenumerate the Canjes of Mixture or fay, How it is ade. mad 5. Laftly, I hall thew the Power of Mixture 3 or, What it can do. CHAP. |