...for a further and clearer lluftration of the matter, I fhall deduce from their original, the caufes, occafions, and the complication of thofe many unforefeen...invention of printing, of the needle and of gunpowder, asthecliefofthem; things in themfelves fo excdlent, and which, the laft only excepted, might have proved...

...so great a change. And it will at first sight seem very strange, when I shall name the restoration of learning, the invention of printing, of the needle...and of gunpowder, as the chief of them; things in themselves so excellent, and which, the last only excepted, might have proved of infinite advantage...