The chief Design of the aforementioned Club, was to 
     propagate new Whims, advance mechanic Exercises, and 
     to promote useless, as well as useful Experiments. 
     In order to carry on this commendable Undertaking, 
     any frantic Artist, chemical Operator, or whimsical 
     Projector, that had but a Crotchet in their Heads, or 
     but dream'd themselves into some strange fanciful 
     Discovery, might be kindly admitted, as welcome 
     Brethren, into this teeming Society, where each Member 
     was respected, not according to his Quality, but the 
     searches he had made into the Mysteries of Nature, and 
     the Novelties, though Trifles, that were owing to his 
     Invention: So that a Mad-man, who had beggar'd himself 
     by his Bellows and his Furnaces, in a vain pursuit of 
     the Philosopher's Stone; or the crazy Physician who had 
     wasted his Patrimony, by endeavouring to recover that 
     infallible Nostrum, Sal Graminis, from the dust and 
     ashes of a burnt Hay-cock, were as much reverenc'd here, 
     as those mechanic Quality, who, to shew themselves 
     Vertuoso's, would sit turning of Ivory above in their 
     Garrets, whilst their Ladies below Stairs, by the help 
     of their He-Cousins, were providing Horns for their 
     Families.
     
-NED WARD, The Vertuoso's Club