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Subjects, in all their Histories.
At the Entrance into this Class, you find some Ancient Comments,
upon the Constitution of the Empire, written many Ages before we
pretend the World began; but above all, One I took particular notice of,

which might bear this Title, Natural Right prov'd Superior to Temporal
Power; wherein the old Author proves, the Chinese Emperors were
Originally made so, by Nature's directing the People, to place the
Power of Government in the most worthy Person they could find; and
the Author giving a most exact History of 2000 Emperors, brings them
into about 35 or 36 Periods of Lines when the Race ended; and when a
Collective Assembly of the Nobles, Cities, and People, Nominated a
new Family to the Goverment.
This being an heretical Book as to European Politicks, and our Learned
Authors having long since exploded this Doctrine, and prov'd that
Kings and Emperors came down from Heaven with Crowns on their
Heads, and all their Subjects were born with Saddles on their Backs; I
thought fit to leave it where I found it, least our excellent Tracts of Sir
Robert Filmer, Dr. Hammond L...y, S....l, and Others, who have so
learnedly treated of the more useful Doctrine of Passive Obedience,
Divine Right, &c. should be blasphem'd by the Mob, grow into
Contempt of the People; and they should take upon them to question
their Superiors for the Blood of Algernon Sidney, and Argyle.
For I take the Doctrines of Passive Obedience, &c. among the
States-men, to be like the Copernican System of the Earths Motion
among Philosophers; which, though it be contrary to all antient
Knowledge, and not capable of Demonstration, yet is adher'd to in
general, because by this they can better solve, and give a more rational
Account of several dark Phanomena in Nature, than they could before.
Thus our Modern States-men approve of this Scheme of Government;
not that it admits of any rational Defence, much less of Demonstration,
but because by this Method they can the better explain, as well as
defend, all Coertion in Cases invasive of Natural Right, than they could
before.
Here I found two famous Volumes in Chyrurgery, being an exact
Description of the Circulation of the Blood, discovered long before
King Solomon's Allegory of the Bucket's going to the Well; with
several curious Methods by which the Demonstration was to be made
so plain, as would make even the worthy Doctor B------ himself

become a Convert to his own Eye-sight, make him damn his own
Elaborate Book, and think it worse Nonsence than ever the Town had
the Freedom to imagine.
All our Philosophers are Fools, and their Transactions a parcel of
empty Stuff, to the Experiments of the Royal Societies in this Country.
Here I came to a Learned Tract of Winds, which outdoes even the
Sacred Text, and would make us believe it was not wrote to those
People; for they tell Folks whence it comes, and whither it goes. There
you have an Account how to make Glasses of Hogs Eyes, that can see
the Wind; and they give strange Accounts both of its regular and
irregular Motions, its Compositions and Quantities; from whence, by a
sort of Algebra, they can cast up its Duration, Violence, and Extent: In
these Calculations, some say, those Authors have been so exact, that
they can, as our Philosophers say of Comets, state their Revolutions,
and tell us how many Storms there shall happen to any Period of time,
and when; and perhaps this may be with much about the same Truth.
It was a certain Sign Aristotle had never been at China; for, had he seen
the 216th Volume of the Chinese Navigation, in the Library I am
speaking of, a large Book in Double Folio, wrote by the Famous
Mira-cho-cho-lasmo, Vice-Admiral of China, and said to be printed
there about 2000 Years before the Deluge, in the Chapter of Tides he
would have seen the Reason of all the certain and uncertain Fluxes and
Refluxes of that Element, how the exact Pace is kept between the Moon
and the Tides, with a most elaborate Discourse there, of the Power of
Sympathy, and the manner how the heavenly Bodies Influence the
Earthly: Had he seen this, the Stagyrite would never have Drowned
himself, because he could not comprehend this Mystery.
'Tis farther related of this Famous Author, that he was no Native of this
World, but was Born in the Moon, and coming hither to make
Discoveries, by a strange Invention arrived to by the Virtuosoes of that
habitable World, the Emperor of China prevailed with him to stay and
improve his Subjects, in the most exquisite Accomplishments of those
Lunar Regions; and no wonder the Chinese are such exquisite Artists,
and Masters of such