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the Diviſions far enough, they muſt have had more Knowledge and Experience than we can allow them, and have made more Reſearches and taken more Pains, than we can ſuppoſe them willing to ſubmit to. Now if, even at this preſent time, we every Day diſcover new Species, which had before eſcaped all our Obſervations, how many Species muſt have eſcaped the Notice of Men, who judged of Things merely from their firſt Appearances! As to the primitive Claſſes and the moſt general Notions, it were ſuperfluous to add that theſe they muſt have likewiſe overlooked: how, for Example, could they have thought of or underſtood the Words, Matter, Spirit, Subſtance, Mode, Figure, Motion, ſince even our Philoſophers, who for ſo long a time have been conſtantly employing theſe Terms, can themſelves ſcarcely underſtand them, and ſince the Ideas annex-