TLucretius Carus, Of the nature of things . ts ofvulgar Fhyfiology^ ^wdof Chymifiry it felf ( for that wonderful Experimenty I f which ^ercetanus and others make mention, concludes - nothing for the RefurreBion of the Body) tho they are equal- v^ ly, nay, more difficult to frove and believe. Let me add (one thing more: The Treatife of Tertullian, which h inti-tuVd de Anima, will ajftft you very much in the rightmmderftanding of this Book : if you read it ^ you willperufe the mofi excellent Work of that great Man. To conclude^Jf in this Booky or in any other of my Writings, any of thefalfe Opin

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TLucretius Carus, Of the nature of things . ts ofvulgar Fhyfiology^ ^wdof Chymifiry it felf ( for that wonderful Experimenty I f which ^ercetanus and others make mention, concludes - nothing for the RefurreBion of the Body) tho they are equal- v^ ly, nay, more difficult to frove and believe. Let me add (one thing more: The Treatife of Tertullian, which h inti-tuVd de Anima, will ajftft you very much in the rightmmderftanding of this Book : if you read it ^ you willperufe the mofi excellent Work of that great Man. To conclude^Jf in this Booky or in any other of my Writings, any of thefalfe Opinions of Lucretius have dropt from me, eitherthrough Hafie, or Inadvertency, I defire it may he remem-ber d, that lam the ABor, not the Poet, and that I hereunfay and recant all Things of that Nature, which mayhavejlipt from me by either of thofe Means. Nor indeedis my Courfe of Life fuch, that when my Soul comes to hefeparated from my Body, I fhould willingly expeB thatEnd, which Nature has ordain d for the Brute Animakthat perijh, FareweL. T. LUCEE^

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