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A77475 A brief vindication of the Royal Society from the late invectives and misrepresentations of Mr. Henry Stubbe: / By a well-wisher to that noble foundation. 1670 (1670) Wing B4656A; ESTC R233727 4,539 14

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A BRIEF VINDICATION OF THE Royal Society From the late Invectives and Mis-representations of Mr. Henry Stubbe By a Well-wisher to that Noble Foundation DVM PREMOR ●TTOLLO LONDON Printed for John Martin at the Bell without Temple-Barr 1670. A BRIEF VINDICATION OF THE Royal Society IF it were not that some worthy Persons no better informed than Mr. Stubbe seems to be of the Design and Business of the Royal Society which he hath lately endeavoured in no less than four ignorant and railing Pamphlets to wound through the sides of some particular persons might be induced to have a sinister Opinion of that Illustrious Body established by his Most Excellent Majesty that now is for the Improvement of Noble and useful Knowledge I should altogether disdain even to touch such disingenuous and foul papers as those which this virulent pen hath of late troubled the Press with are justly esteemed to be by all truly Generous and Considerate men both Domesticks and Forainers who are acquainted with the true State of what he doth most maliciously and undeservedly labour to defame Since therefore it is necessary that something should be said for the sake of those that may upon the reading of such Libelling Pamphlets frame to themselves wrong conceptions of that Royal Foundation so immorally assailed by this petulant writer I shall endeavour in a short Vindication to represent the true End and Work of that Institution and by doing so manifest to the World that this Calumniator hath with all his late Scribling done nothing but filled a great deal of waste paper with a lively Character of his own perverse vain and turbulent Genius reviving the Memory of his former wayes and confirming the opinion had of him before of his discomposed and malitious nature I must therefore say that if Envy and Malice and other cursed Motives had not blinded him he would have been so far from reviling one of the Noblest Establishments that ever was erected by any Prince that he would have found as well as all considering and sober men do that the Aime and Purpose of the Royal Society is not any thing at all of what he taketh so much pains and useth so much craft to insinuate To espouse or reject this or that sect of Philosophers or to meddle with Religion Divinity Medical Practises much less to endanger the Religion established in England the Monarchical Government the two famous Universities the Received Education and the Profession on of Physick all which he goes about in those vile Books to bear the World in hand they intend to do but that their desires and attempts are to increase Knowledge and to discover truth where-ever it be in Natural Mechanical and Mathematical things to help Old Inventions and encourage New ones and all for the raising and enobling the Dignity of Humane Nature and the serving of Mankind And since they are perswaded with the Excellent Lord Verulam and many other judicious Moderns that hitherto all sorts of Naturalists have been too hasty in establishing Systems of Natural Philosophy before they had laid a solid and comprehensive Foundation to build upon they have esteemed it a laudable and useful Undertaking to endeavour that all industrious and sagacious Inquirers of Nature every where may conjoyn their Researches studies and labours to examine what hath been performed hitherto to retain what will endure the Test and to add thereunto what they can in order to the composing a faithful History of Nature and Art that may contain a competent stock of Observations and Experiments frequently and carefully made by Intelligent and Cautious men which may serve for a Magazeen of Materials of which hereafter by duly considering the whole and comparing all the parts together may be raised if possible such a Systeme of natural Philosophy as may give a rational Accompt of the Appearances and Effects of Nature and enable men to infer from confronted Causes and Effects such consequences as may conduce to the greater benefit and ampler accommodations of Humane life This then being the true Design of this Royal Establishment and the sole Prospect of those that are ingaged therein it alone is able to scatter that heap of unsavory talk put together by this vain Writer wherein t is palpable that he never would understand the true Ground and End of this Institution and that in all his Airy and Empty discourses where he strikes at the. Royal Society he doth but fight with his own fancy and shadow For whosoever is impartial and will but give himself the leisure to consider the Nature of such a Design and the happy Effects which its serious prosecution may have such an one will soon conclude that what ever is said in those Fardles as far as it tends to detract from the said Society contains nothing but spiteful misrepresentations and calumnies poured out on purpose to try whether something of it Would not stick with Credulous Men to whom the Actings and Design of the R. Society are not known O therwise who is there I pray that being in his right wits can conceive that such an Institution and such Studies can tend to undermine the Protestant Religion whose Design Business and Glory it is to encrease Light and Knowledg Or that it can as is suggested by this pretended Champion of the Church of England known to be indifferent to all Religions introduce Popery which wants that Latitude of pursuing the sense of the Motto Nullius in Verba chosen by this R. Corporation Who can believe that it endangers Monarchy which formerly this Railer hath been shrewdly suspected to hate without calling in question the Prudence of one of the Wisest and most Potent Monarchs in the world that hath incorporated it by his Royal Charter and by doing so encreased his Renown abroad to admiration witness several English Ambassadors and other publick Ministers innumerable Travellers and abundance of Letters written from all parts and added also to his singular Luster at home among all those that know what value to put upon Virtue and Knowledge And how shall this be said without throwing dirt upon those Eminent and Illustrious Prelates Nobles Officers of State and other Loyal and Learned Persons of all sorts who have Honoured the Register of the Royal Society with the subscription of their Names after their Royal Founder his Royal Highness his Highness Prince Rupert and one of the Dukes of Brunswick and Luneburg Again who can affirm without a front of Brass cation of Youth Whereas it is evident that they intermeddle not with any such thing but if they should have any influence upon it it can be none other but to render it more Manly and more Polite in regard that this Society consists of many of the best Extraction and Breeding Noblemen Gentlemen Travellers Persons that have studied Men and conversed with Things Knowing in the most Solid and moil Useful parts of Knowledge such as are the mixt Mathematiques Natural Philosophy Chymistry Anatomy Physick Mechanical