cannot at once know all the Properties of the Soil. Thoſe who come after him, and make theſe Lands fruitful, are at leaſt oblig'd to him for the Diſcovery. I will not deny but that there are innumerable Errors in the reſt of Des Cartes's Works.
Geometry was a Guide he himſelf had in ſome Meaſure faſhion'd, which would have conducted him ſafely thro' the ſeveral Paths of natural Philoſophy. Nevertheleſs he at laſt abandon'd this Guide, and gave entirely into the Humour of forming Hypotheſes; and then Philoſophy was no more than an ingenious Romance, fit only to amuſe the Ignorant. He was miſtaken in the Nature of the Soul, in the Proofs of the Exiſtence of a God, in Matter, in the Laws of Motion, and in the Nature of Light. He admitted innate Ideas, he invented new Elements, he created a World; he made Man according to his own Fancy; and 'tis juſtly ſaid, that the Man of Des Cartes is in Fact that of Des Cartes only, very different from the real one.
