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It explains why extracts—especially Fairfax’s Address to the Reader and Whitlock’s own preface—are selected to illustrate distinctive English prose styles associated with the Royal Society era. The introduction also summarizes key biographical details about Whitlock from major sources, then discusses his intellectual aims: resistance to dogmatism, skepticism mixed with eclecticism, and advocacy for reason and experiment as guides for 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\nBULK AND SELVEDGEOF THEWORLDI674  \nTHREE SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE NETT  \nUNIVERSITY PRESS OF LIVERPOOLHoDDER &SrOUGHTON LTD.,LoNDON  \n## S.H-Qtkub\n\n一  \nTWO  \n# SEVENTEENTH-CENTURYPREFACES\n\nRichard Wbitlock  \nZOOTOMIA  \nI654  \nand  \nNatbaniel Fairfax  \nA  \nTREATISEOF THE  \nBULK AND SELVEDGEOF THEWORLDI674  \nUNIVERSITY PRESS OF LIVERPOOLHoDDER &STOUGHTON LTD.,LoNDONI949  \nLIVERPOOL REPRINTSNUMBER 3  \nGENERAL EDITOR  \nL.C.MARTIN  \nPRINTED IN ENGLAND  \nC.TINLING &Co.,LTD.,LIVERPOOL,LoNDON AND PRESCOT  \n## INTRODUCTION\n\nNEITHER Whitlock's Zootomia nor Fairfax'sTreatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World hasever attracted much critical attention.So far asFairfax is concerned this is perhaps scarcely to beregretted;few would nowadays want to read hiscurious work in full.Nevertheless his style issufficiently individual and amusing to justify thereprinting of a brief extract.And obviously themost suitable passage to choose is the address Tothe Reader,which both explains and exemplifiesFairfax's notions of how English should be writtenin the invigorating days of the youthful RoyalSociety.Whitlock has received slightly more atten-tion:an article by Mr.G.Williamson(P.Q,xv,I936)has ably shown that his work is of considerableimportance in relation to the thought of theseventeenth century.Here again,if a brief extract isto be made,the obvious choice is the Preface,whichmost conveniently shows Whitlock's intellectualrange,and also gives an explanation and demons-tration of his energetic prose.Both prefaces are ofsome general interest;more particularly they meritreprinting as examples of two significant varietiesof seventeenth-century prose style.  \nNot very much is to be learned of RichardWhitlock's life.He is not given an entry in the  \nD.N.B.What we know of him is almost entirely  \ngained from Wood's Athene Oxonienses,which tells usthat he was born in London and that he was agedI6 when he became a commoner of Magdalen Hallin the Michaelmas term of 1632;it is thereforelikely he was born in 1616.He took his B.A.'fouryears after'matriculation,became a Fellow of AllSouls in 1638 and B.C.L.in 1640.The title-pageof Zootomia calls him‘M.D.’,but Wood commentsthat‘it does not appear in our registers that he wasso':the origin of this degree,as Mr.Williamsonsuggests,may be explained by the reference to‘his Education in our own and forraign Academies'inSir John Birkenhead's note in the first impression ofZootomia.Wood mentions the publication of thiswork in 1654 and remarks that it was  \ncommended to the world by a letter to the author,written by Dr.Jasp.Mayne,who saith for art,learning,and variety of matter,put into a hand-some dress,the author hath exceeded any writerin this kind.  \nWood's account of the rest of Whitlock's life is asfollows:  \nAfter Mr.Whitlock had run with the times ofusurpation,he wheel'd about at the restoration ofKing Charles II.took holy orders,and had asmall parsonage in Kent conferr'd on him byarchbishop Sheldon,where he finished his courseabout 1672 or after,as I have been informed byMr.Henry Birkhead his contemporary in Alls.coll.  \n## Introduction\n\nFoster's Alumni Oxonienses adds the information thatthe date of Whitlock's matriculation was 23 Novem-ber,and of his graduating B.A.I6 June I635,thatI640 was the date when he was‘called doctor ofphysic’(?a confusion with the B.C.L.),and thathis benefices were Stowe,Bucks(1661)and Ashford,Kent(1662).Apart from its copious illustrationsof his intellectual interests,Zootomia gives no bio-graphical material except the names of severalfriends :to those already mentioned may be addedMartin Lluelyn,the author of Men-Miracles.Exceptfor Birkhead,who retained his fellowship by sub-mission to the visitors,all these friends,it will benoted,were staunch royalists;they do not seem tohave objected to Whitlock's'running with thetimes’—perha","cbCaitlBdhAkSXoM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitlBdhAkSXoM","pdf",2520523,68,"English","# Introduction\n## 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