Natural and Experimental History

ences in the Greater World
they may seek: furthermore, let them
either cast away their thoughts
of Philosophy, or at least expect
but modest and meager fruits from
it, until a Natural and Experimental History, diligent and
proven, has been compiled
and completed. For what do these
Brain-cells of Men, and powerful
Trifles, mean for themselves?
There were among the ancients, the doctrines of the Philosophers in great
number; of Pythagoras,
Philolaus, Xenophanes,
Hera-