profitable to the publick, to build a great part of their e&longs;teem
<lb/> and reputation on the credit of <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> he is much puzzled and
<lb/> perplexed: and methinks I hear him &longs;ay, To whom then &longs;hould
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<lb/> we repair for the deci&longs;ion of our controver&longs;ies, if <emph type="italics"/>Ari&longs;totle<emph.end type="italics"/> were
<lb/> removed from the chair? </s><s>What other Author &longs;hould we follow
<lb/> in the Schools, Academies and Studies? </s><s>What Philo&longs;opher hath
<lb/> writ all the parts of Natural Philo&longs;ophy, and that &longs;o methodically
<lb/> without omitting &longs;o much as one &longs;ingle conclu&longs;ion? </s><s>Shall we then
<lb/> overthrow that Fabrick under which &longs;o many pa&longs;&longs;engers find
<lb/> &longs;helter? </s><s>Shall we de&longs;troy that <emph type="italics"/>A&longs;ylum,<emph.end type="italics"/> that <emph type="italics"/>Prytaneum,<emph.end type="italics"/> where­
<lb/> in &longs;o many Students meet with commodious harbour, where
<lb/> without expo&longs;ing them&longs;elves to the injuries of the air, with the
<lb/> onely turning over of a few leaves, one may learn all the &longs;e­
<lb/> crets of Nature? </s><s>Shall we di&longs;mantle that fort in which we are
<lb/> &longs;afe from all ho&longs;tile a&longs;&longs;aults? </s><s>But I pitie him no more than I do
<lb/> that Gentleman who with great expence of time and trea&longs;ure,
<lb/> and the help of many hundred arti&longs;ts, erects a very &longs;umptu­
<lb/> ous Pallace, and afterwards beholds it ready to fall, by rea&longs;on
<lb/> of the bad foundation; but being extremely unwilling to &longs;ee
<lb/> the Walls &longs;tript which are adorned with &longs;o many beautifull
<lb/> Pictures; or to &longs;uffer the columns to fall, that uphold the &longs;tate­
<lb/> ly Galleries; or the gilded roofs, chimney-pieces, the freizes,
<lb/> the corni&longs;hes of marble, with &longs;o much co&longs;t erected, to be rui­
<lb/> ned; goeth about with girders, props, &longs;hoars, buttera&longs;&longs;es, to pre­
<lb/> vent their &longs;ubver&longs;ion.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>But ala&longs;s, <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/> as yet fears no &longs;uch fall, and
<lb/> I would undertake to &longs;ecure him from that mi&longs;chief at a far
<lb/> le&longs;s charge. </s><s>There is no danger that &longs;o great a multitude of
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<lb/> &longs;ubtle and wi&longs;e Philo&longs;ophers, &longs;hould &longs;uffer them&longs;elves to be
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>Hector'd<emph.end type="italics"/> by one or two, who make a little blu&longs;tering; nay,
<lb/> they will rather, without ever turning the points of their pens
<lb/> again&longs;t them, by their &longs;ilence onely render them the object of
<lb/> univer&longs;al &longs;corn and contempt. </s><s>It is a fond conceit for any one
<lb/> to think to introduce new Philo&longs;ophy, by reproving this or that
<lb/> Author: it will be fir&longs;t nece&longs;&longs;ary to new-mold the brains of
<lb/> men, and make them apt to di&longs;tingui&longs;h truth from fal&longs;hood. </s><s>A
<lb/> thing which onely God can do. </s><s>But from one di&longs;cour&longs;e to another
<lb/> whither are we &longs;tray'd? </s><s>your memory mu&longs;t help to guide me into
<lb/> the way again.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>I remember very well where we left. </s><s>We were
<lb/> upon the an&longs;wer of <emph type="italics"/>Anti-Tycho,<emph.end type="italics"/> to the objections again&longs;t the
<lb/> immutability of the Heavens, among which you in&longs;erted this
<lb/> of the Solar fpots, not &longs;poke of by him; and I believe you
<lb/> intended to examine his an&longs;wer to the in&longs;tance of the New
<lb/> Stars.</s></p>
