Natural and Experimental History

men, and any zeal for relieving human necessities and miseries, if there is any love of Truth in natural things, and hatred of darkness, and a desire to purify the intellect; men must be entreated again and again to dismiss for a little while, or at least to set aside, these fleeting and preposterous philosophies, which have placed theses before hypotheses and have led experience captive, and have triumphed over the works of God; humbly,