If this Discourse appear too
long to be read at once, it may
be divided into six Parts: and,
in the first, will be found various
considerations touching the Sciences;
in the second, the principal
rules of the Method which the
Author has discovered, in the
third, certain of the rules of
Morals which he has deduced from
this Method; in the fourth, the
reasonings by which he establishes
the existence of God and of the
Human Soul, which are the foundations
of his Metaphysic; in the fifth,
the order of the Physical questions
which he has investigated, and,
in particular, the explication
of the motion of the heart and
of some other difficulties pertaining
to Medicine, as also the difference
between the soul of man and that
of the brutes; and, in the last,
what the Author believes to be
required in order to greater
advancement in the investigation
of Nature than has yet been made,
with the reasons that have induced
him to write.
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