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Title:  A free enquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd notion of nature made in an essay address'd to a friend / by R.B., Fellow of the Royal Society.
Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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Natura est sapientissima, adeoque opus Naturae est opus Intelligentiae.Arist. de Coe∣lo, l. II. c. 11. Natura nihil facit fru∣stra.Natura fine suo nunquam excidit.Arist. de Coe∣lo l. II. c. 5. it. de Gen. l. II. c. 10. §. 22. Natura semper facit quod optimum est.Natura semper agit per vias brevissimas.Natura neque redundat in superfluis, neque deficit in necessariis.Omnis Natura est conservatrix sui.Natura est morborum medicatrix.Natura semper invigilat conserva∣tioni Vniversi.Natura vacuum horret.From all these Particulars put to∣gether, it may appear, that the vulgar Notion of Nature may be conveniently enough expres'd by some such Description as this.Nature is a most wise Being, that does nothing in vain, does not miss of her Ends; does always that which (of the things she can do) is best to be done; and this she does by the 0