These are the days that must lay a new Foundation of a more magnificent Philosophy, never to be overthrown; that will Empirically and Sensibly canvass the Phaenomena of Nature, deducing the Causes of things from such Originals in Nature, as we observe are producible in Art, and the infallible demonstration of Mechanicks; and certainly, this is the way, and no other, to build a true and permanent Philosophy...
What Henry Power is proposing is a philosophy based upon the study and observation of nature. This is essentially, the manifesto of Natural Philosophy.
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