_signalizing_ a Work worthy of
_Immortality_) had long since given _Hostages_ to _Fortune_, and so put my
self out of a Capacity of shewing my _Affection_ to a _Design_ so
glorious; I would not only most chearfully have _contributed_ towards the
freeing it from the _Straits_ it has so long struggl'd under; but
_sacrific'd_ all my _Secular Interests_ in their Service: But, as I said,
this is reserv'd for that Gallant _Hero_ (whoe'er it be) that truly
weighing the noble and universal _Consequence_ of so high an _Enterprize_,
shall at last free it of these _Reproaches_; and either set it above the
reach of _Envy_, or convert it to _Emulation_. This were indeed to consult
an honest _Fame_, and to _embalm_ the _Memory_ of a _Greater Name_ than
any has yet appear'd amongst all the _Benefactors_ of the _Disputing
Sects_: Let it suffice to affirm, that next the _Propagation_ of our most
_Holy Faith_, and its _Appendants_, (nor can His _Majesty_ or the _Nation_
build their _Fame_ on a more _lasting_, a more _Glorious Monument_;) The
Propagation of _Learning_, and _useful Arts_, having always surviv'd the
_Triumphs_ of the proudest _Conquerors_, and Spillers of humane _Blood_;)
_Princes_ have been more _Renown'd_ for their Civility to _Arts_ and
_Letters_, than to all their _Sanguinary Victories_, subduing _Provinces_,
and making those brutish _Desolations_ in the World, to feed a _salvage_
and vile _Ambition_. Witness you _Great Alexander_, and you the
_Ptolemees_, _Caesars_, _Charemain_, _Francis_ the First; the _Cosimo's_,
_Frederic's_, _Alphonsus's_, and the rest of _Learned Princes_: Since when
all the _Pomp_ and Noise is ended; They are those _little things_ in
_black_ (whom now in scorn they term _Philosophers_ and _Fopps_) to whom
they must be oblig'd, for making their _Names_ outlast the _Pyramids_
whose _Founders_ are as unknown as the Heads of _Nile_; because they
either deserv'd no _Memory_ for their _Vertues_, or had none to transmit
them, or their _Actions_ to _Posterity_.

Is not our R. _Founder_ already _Panegyriz'd_ by all the _Universities_,
_Academists_, _Learned Persons_, divers _Princes_ _Ambassadors_, and
_Illustrious_ Men from _abroad_? Witness besides, the many accurate
_Treatises_ and _Volumes_ of the most _curious_ and _useful_ Subjects,
_Medicinal_, _Mathematical_, and _Mechanical_, dedicated to His
_Majesty_ as _Founder_; to its _President_, and to the _Society_, by the
greatest _Wits_, and most profoun