I have heard that it was is a custom all the for a in the Austrian family to teach all the Princes some manual trade, & it is well known the Great Czar infor some measure time in a manner abdicated the crown his an Empire to learn Mechanicks, but without discussing wether it be necessary for Kings to have Philosophical hands as well as minds it will be allowed that there never was to be a truertrue saying than that of a late Excellent Excellent author (who in more instances than one seemed to prophecy & foretell the productions of the the great author now SrSir I. N.) that Philosophy would then attain to perfection when either Mechanick labourers should have Philosophical heads or Philosophers haue mechanical hands – Happy was it It was a providential idleness – or it was nothing less than idleness in SrSir I. that SrSir I. thus exercised at once, at once equally his body & his mind & his hands as well as his thoughts – As the operations of exercise of the faculties of the soul depends on the condition of the organs of the body, so the Philosopical & they are lively & vigorous or weak & depressed inactive faint according to the condition the of machine the machine by wchwhich they actthose mechanical organs inventions the Philosophical productions of the mind are in a great measure supported improved & advanced by The ready operations of the hands, & SrSir I. had never carried this improvements of his intellectual improvements discoveries so far if by an early habit & constant exercise he had not acquired that a wonderfull manual dexterity in ex wchwhich put in execution to execute & perform those experiments his invention & sagacity contrived, & in wchwhich others of great fame & note were hardly able to follow him even after he had instructed them

if he had not thus early from his childhood exercised at once his body as well as his & his mind & his hands as well as his thoughts & by aan cons early use & habit & constant use acquired so masterly wonderfull a dexterity a pliableness & in executing those experiments his invention contrived that others who made it their business of no small note who were hardy hardly able to followedfollow him even after he had pointed chalked out the way for them

I have heard that it has been a long It is said to be a custom in for all the Princes of the House of Austria to teach make their Princes themselves masters of some manual trade Handicraft, & & it is well known the Great Czar in a manner abdicated an Empire for some years to learn mechanicks, but without considering discussing wether it be as necessary for Kings to have Philosophical hands as well as Plato thought it was to Philosophical minds it will must now be allowed be owned to be true that SrSir I. made good the saying of a late Excellent author (who seemed to prophecy in more instances inthan one what has been accomplished by SrSir I. N) that Philosophy would then attain to perfection when either mechanick labourers should have mechanical hands Philosophical heads or Philosophers have mechanical hands — As the Faculties of the exercise of the Soul depend on the is influenced by accidental thethe accidental disposition organs of the body & they are lively & vigorous or dull & weak frail according to the condition state of the Machine by wchwhich they act of the body, the Philosophical productions of the mind are improved & advanced by an a correspondence concurrence & ready & concurring & equal manual & expert cooperation of the corporeal organs hands, & SrSir Isaac had never not carried his intellectual natural discoveries in nature so far, if he had not thus from his childhood thus exercised his at once his body & mind & his hands as well as his thoughts & by an early use & habit given a proper turn & pliancy to both & acquired so wonderfull a dexterity in executing the experiments his invention contrived that Mariotte & Huygens & others of no small note who sett out in the same road were not hardly able to follow him even after he had chalked trod & pointed out the way path for them – It is obserued by a late Ingenious author that Nature to endear the necessity of society has given one man's hands to another man's head & that the Ma Smith & the Carpenter & the Ioiner & Smith are necessary to the Mathematician

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This to come in where I give an account of SrSir Isaac's dexterity in experiments

Like the Musician who must have a dexterity in his fingers to execute as well as a fancy to compose