Excerpt from A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation, or a Compendium of Natural Philosophy, Vol. 5 of 5

I willingly therefore give up to the partizans of 'the moderns every advdntage I have here enumerated; but __there 18 no need on that account to rob the ancients of the share they have had 111 promoting all these parts'bf knowledge, by the pains they took to beat out for us the'tracks we havepursued. Much less should we as. Sume, as modern discoveries, what the ancients really invented or illustrated. It also deserves notice, that: the most part of the admirable and useful inventions, in which enr'age glories, such as printing, gunpowder, the compass, telescopes, 850. Were, not the acquisi tions=of genius and philosophy, but; mere effects of chance. To place in its' true light the share the an. Cz'ents have m whatever we pretend to know, and even in what has been called modern discoveries, is the prin cipalaiin of my present undertaking.

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