A new treatise of the art of thinking; or : a compleat system of reflections, concerning the conduct and improvement of the mind ; illustrated with variety of characters and examples drawn from ordinary occurrences of life . ording to the Bulkand Figure of what it meets with ? If they ground theirDiftiadion upon the great Changes, andthe Variety of Formswhereby Nature diverfifies her Works; they will be Corn is changed into Meal, and then into Bread ; thatWool is changed into Cloaths, and Hemp into Paper ;Transformations which equal, and even exceed feveral na-tural Forms. Laftly, if
A new treatise of the art of thinking; or : a compleat system of reflections, concerning the conduct and improvement of the mind ; illustrated with variety of characters and examples drawn from ordinary occurrences of life . ording to the Bulkand Figure of what it meets with ? If they ground theirDiftiadion upon the great Changes, andthe Variety of Formswhereby Nature diverfifies her Works; they will be Corn is changed into Meal, and then into Bread ; thatWool is changed into Cloaths, and Hemp into Paper ;Transformations which equal, and even exceed feveral na-tural Forms. Laftly, if they infiftupon the Imperceptibilityof the Ways of Nature, they will alfo be told, That fomcWorks made with Mens Hands, cannot be unfolded with-out the Help of Microfcopes. The Force of Nature runs?upon Motion, Bulk, and Figure, and upon the Colledionsof Agents with which it works. All human Induftry isexerted with the fame Helps. Nature is therefore the Mo-?del of Art, and Artificial Forms are Natural Forms. Effedls. In fuch a Cafe, we fhould no longer guefsi we fliould feewith our own Eyes, and be fare that Natural and Artificial Phano-mena proceed from the fame Caufes, or at leaft, from Caufes notmuch CHAP. Sect. II. the Art of Th inking. 43 ^.
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