force) as by settling our banish'd Felons in the new World, and employing them sufficiently there, we keep our selves pretty quiet at Home in the old one; so I hope that these ungovernable and satyrical Observers, who not content with censuring and decrying all that past in former Ages, turn themselves to ridiculing and contemning all that is done in this, may be kept from overturning the Peace of these our Days, by being employ'd on the Secrets of Times to come. Besides I find it is by no means sufficient, for the elevated Genius's of this Age, to know all that may be known: This is too easy a Conquest for their superior Strength, and they gloriously aim at being Masters of all that is not to be known. As I pay the highest Veneration to such exalted Spirits, I have done what Man could do, (aided by the Discoveries of my good Angel) to let them see all that is to be in Art or Nature, till the Dissolution of both, and have resolv'd to gratifie them with some considerable Hints of what will happen at the general Conflagration, when they, this Earth, and even Time, and all their learned (their exquisitely learned) Labours, shall be no more!
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