operate and compute and ſolve Problems thereby, not only without an actual Attention to, or an actual Knowledge of, the Grounds of that Method, and the Principles whereon it depends, and whence it is deduced, but even without having ever conſidered or comprehended them.
XXXIII. But then it muſt be remembred, that in ſuch Caſe although you may paſs for an Artiſt, Computiſt, or Analyſt, yet you may not be juſtly eſteemed a Man of Science and Demonſtration. Nor ſhould any Man, in virtue of being converſant in ſuch obſcure Analytics, imagine his rational Faculties to be more improved than thoſe of other Men, which have been exerciſed in a different manner, and on different Subjects; much leſs erect himſelf into a Judge and an Oracle, concerning Matters that have no ſort of connexion with, or dependence on thoſe Species, Symbols or Signs, in the Management whereof he is ſo converfant and expert. As you, who are a skilful Computiſt or Analyſt, may not therefore be deemed skilful in Anatomy: or vice verſa, as a
