A voyage to the world of Cartesius written originally in French, and now translated into English.

PART I.

THey shall not for the future Abuse or Vili••ie each other; that Way being unphiloso∣phical, and being likewise already exploded the Schools, by the Worthiest and best of the Pro∣fessors.

The Ladies and knowing Women must no lon∣ger treat Aristotle on their Besides as a Fop and a Pedant: They ought to know he has been a Sol∣dier, a Man of Courtship and Intrigue, who, before he became a Philosopher, took his Plea∣sure and spent his Estate, that was no little one, being Son of the Chief Physician to Amyntas, Grandfather of Alexander; and perhaps there was never a Philosopher in the World more a Courtier and a Gentleman than he.

On the other Hand the Old Professors of Phi∣losophy must remember to be more sparing of their Epithets, of which they are commonly too liberal on Cartesius his Account; constantly styl∣ing him Enthusiast, Madman, sometimes Heretick and Atheist. Voetius from henceforth voluntarily makes him an Authentick Satisfaction as to all those Points, in default of that which the Procu∣rators of Leyden and Vtretcht denied him, cor∣rupted by the Friends of the aforesaid Sieur Voe∣tius; who is his most humble Servant.

Aristotle shall disclaim all those Books com∣posed against M. Descartes, in an Injurious and Abusive Way, such as is that Tract entituled, Deliriorum Cartesii Ventilatio. At least he shall order, That they be corrected, and that in the New Edition Care be taken to retrench some Expressions a little too strong and biting.

M. Descartes also, on his part, shall give Or∣ders, That in the New Impressions of the Works of some of his Followers, some Prefaces be lopt off, or rather some Malicious Satyrs against the School Philosophers, not caring to distinguish them from one another, and throwing unjustly upon all, the Faults of some Particulars, such as are the Passion of Wrangling, Confusion, Equivocal

Terms, and Ignorance in the most Curtious Parts of Physicks.

It shall be prohibited all the Cartesians to give a Character of Aristotle's Merit, before they have read him, especially before they have seen his Logick, his Rhetorick, his History of Animals, and others, where he treats Natural Philosophy in Particulars: And they shall take heed of giv∣ing a Judgment on that Philosopher's Parts by his Books De Phisico auditu, that are not so clear and perspicuous as his others; the Author having his private Reasons for his writing in that manner; which have yet been more confounded in Tract of Time, by a swarm of Translators and Commen∣tators, who often talk Greek in Latin, and where∣of some understood neither.

Be it prohibited likewise all the Peripateticks to be angry at Descartes's philosophy before they have throughly examined it, under the Pe∣nalty of rendring themselves ridiculous, as some have done, who have placed him in the Cata∣logue of Atomists; that is, of such as fancy Bo∣dies composed of Atoms or indivisible Parts; or as another that wrote ingenuously to M. Descartes himself, he had plainly seen with his Eyes the Subtil Matter, having by the luckiest Accident imaginable observed an abundance of little Bodies playing in the Air, by the Advan∣tage of a Sun-beam, that passed through a chink of one of his Casements.

Lastly, Aristotle entreats the Gentlemen Carte∣sians, not to father upon him whatever they find in the Books of his Disciples, without consulting himself; promising on his part, to give no one the Title of Cartesian but upon mature Delibe∣ration, especially in regard of certain young

Abbots, Cavaliers, Proctors and Physicians, that call themselves Cartesians in all Companies, for a Pretence to Parts and Ingenuity, which they sometimes get the Repute of, by that only Con∣fidence of talking at all rates of Subtle Matter, Globules of the Second Element, Vortexes, Automa∣ta's and Phenomena's without understanding any thing but Terms.