Suppressed or discarded sections of Notion of Nature (1686)a

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The foregoing discourse 1 written as the Praeface you, above a dozen years agoe; without takeing 2 Notice of what has been since done in the Common-wealth of Learning wherein it may be concern&s;d; I must not conceal from you, that I have 3 mett with among Able Men, some things, that probably will be thought, some of them to reflect highly upon Mechanicall Philosophizers 4 in generall, & consequently upon me; & some of them to containe Arguments very favourable to the receiv&s;d Notion of Nature, that I am dissatisfied with. Wherefore 5 I thinke my selfe oblidg&s;d to accompany the discourse I send you, with a few Observations upon the two heads newly mention&s;d.

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