for the Sciences; he muſt at the ſame Time be deeply ſkill'd in them; and is oblig'd to diſpute the Seat with Competitors who are ſo much the more formidable as they are fir'd by a Principle of Glory, by Intereſt, by the Difficulty it ſelf, and by that Inflexibility of Mind, which is generally found in thoſe who devote themſelves to that pertinacious Study, the Mathematicks.
The Academy of Sciences is prudently confin'd to the Study of Nature, and, indeed, this is a Field ſpacious enough for fifty or threeſcore Perſons to range in. That of London mixes indiſcrimately Literature with Phyſicks: But methinks the founding an Academy merely for the polite Arts is more judicious, as it prevents Confuſion, and the joining, in ſome Meaſure, of Heterogeneals, ſuch as a Diſſertation on the Head-dreſſes of the Roman Ladies with an hundred or more new Curves.
As there is wery little Order and Regularity in the Royal Society, and not the leaſt Encouragement; and that the Aca-
