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tings, give a clearer Light to Ours. All that I would insinuate, therefore, is only this, that it is not necessary to lay the Method we use before the Reader, only to write, and then he will read, in Order.
But it requireth, my Lord, a full Command of the Subject, a distinct View to keep it always in Sight, or else without some Method first designed, we shall be in Danger of losing it, and wandring after it, till we have lost ourselves, and bewildered the Reader.
A prescribed Method is necessary for weaker Heads, but the Beauty of Order is its Freedom and Unconstraint: It must
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