The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington; From the Baker Mss. in the British Museum and the Cambridge University Library and Other Sources (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... if it were the spirit of the world. For the Corpuscularian Pl1ilosophy, I had long ago complained to you, that Sir K.enelm Digby had said enough of it to make me giddy in their Pro et Contra, & my refuge was Ld Bacon's 'Circa Ultimates rerum frustranea est Inquisitio.' But now I see a stay for the light of reason and experience. Neither had I anything more in chase, then the cause of firmness, wch in Ld Bacon's language (who first awaken'd my attention to it) is frequently called consistency. Beiug now in my devotions before the oracle, you can expect but few lines, and in these my advice, that you procure them for yourself, before they arc all gone out of the shops, for I supplicate, that these may rather return to you in cash, than in kind. 'Tis my great joy that Mr. B.oylc is so far engaged to give us the rest of his notes and following experiments. In these he hath obliged all the intelligent inhabitants of this world, and hath given us hope, that we shall shortly complete humane sciences. Some families amongst us have answered all Ld Bacon's votes for advancement of learning. And this honourable family deserves to be reputed the first college in this university or oecumenical academy." And again in another letter: --" My last was very abrupt and concise, because at that time, as I then told you, I was attentive in my devotions before the noble oracle, wch I may now, upon the reviewed solemnities of holy oath, style the most satisfying oracle in my apprehensions, that ever appeared in the converse of mortals, on this habitable globe, for discovery of all the works of nature. To those that have been so tired and wearied, as I have been, in the several ways of Teles.fius1 Flood, Gassendus, the Cartesian, & Atomical or Corpuscularian...