He puſh'd his metaphyſical Errors ſo far, as to declare that two and two make four, for no other Reaſon but becauſe God would have it ſo. However, 'twill not be making him too great a Compliment if we affirm that he was valuable even in his Miſtakes. He deceiv'd himſelf, but then it was at leaſt in a methodical Way. He deſtroy'd all the abſurd Chimæra's with which Youth had been infatuated for two thouſand Years. He taught his Cotemporaries how to reaſon, and enabled them to employ his own Weapons against himſelf. If Des Cartes did not pay in good Money, he however did great Service in crying down that of a baſe Alloy.
I indeed believe, that very few will preſume to compare his Philoſophy in any reſpect with that of Sir Iſaac Newton. The former is an Eſſay, the latter a Maſter-Piece: But then the Man who firſt brought us to the Path of Truth, was perhaps as great a Genius as he who afterwards conducted us through it.
Des Cartes gave Sight to the Blind. Theſe ſaw the Errors of Antiquity and of
