224 8 NE Principles of Bodies. Book IV. 
Bollsio a Steeple, making a pitiful Chime: but tryeth to rife up to 
Natures own Number, and foto ring all the Changes in the World. | 
6. $. Yet doth not this valt Diverfity take away the Regiment and 
Subordination of Principles. There being a certain lefler zumber of 
them, which either by their greater quantity, or other ways, have 
Rule and Deminion, in their feveral Orders, over all the reft. For 
where-cver the Subjed? is Multitude, Order is part of its Perfefion. For 
Order is Proportion. And how can Nature be imagin’d to hold Propor- 
tion in all things elfe, and not here ? Wherefore, as certainly, as Or- 
der and Government are in all the Parts of the Rational 5 fo certainly, 
of the Material World. Whence it is, That although the species of 
Principles be very numerous 5 yet the Principles called Galenical, Chy- 
mical, or any others, whicb do any way fall under the notice of 
Sen, are notwithftanding reduceable to a fmaller number : wiz according 
to the zwaberof Fredominant Principles in Natures or,rather in this part 
of the Uxiverfe which is near and round about ws. To the Power and 
Empire whereof, all other Principles do fubmit. Which Submilfion, is 
not the quitting of theirown Nature 5 but only their appearance under 
the external Face or Habit of the faid Predominant Principles, 
7- $. Asthere can be no Order of Principles, without Diverfity 5 
fo no Diverfity, but what is originally made by thefe two ways; je. by 
size and Figure. By thefe they may be exceeding different: and all 
other Properties befides, whereby they differ, muft be dependent upon 
thefe Two. 
8. $. Nor therefore, can they beofany other Figures, than what 
are Regular: + For Regularity, is a Similitude contim’d. Since there- 
fore all kinds of Aromes are divers only by their Size and Figure 5 if 
the felfe fame Size and Figure were not common to a certain number of 
Atomes, they could not befaid to be of any one kind: andconfequent- 
ly, if there were no Similitude of Atomes, there could be no Diftin 
dion of Principles. 
9. $. Hence alfo, thefe two Modes of Atomes, viz. their Sizeand 
Figure, are the true, and only original Qualities of Atomes, Thatis, 
an Atome is fuch or fuch, becaufe ft is of Tuch a certain size and Fi- 
wire. 
10. $. Laftly, Asthefe two Modes, taken feverally, are the Qua- 
lities of an Atome: fo confider'd together, they are its Form. A Jub- 
Stantial Form of a Body, being an unintelligible thing. I fay of a 
Body; for although the Rational Soul be a fubftantial Form , yet is 
it the Form of a Man, and not of a Body. For the Form of A i 
we can conceive of no otherwile, thanas of the Modification of a Body, ™ 
or a Complexion of all the Modes of a Body. Which alfo agrees with 
that Definition of a Form, whichamongft the Peripatetick Philofophers 
is well enough accepted,viz. Quod fit, Ratio ejus Effentie, que cnique Rei R 
competit. Which Ratio, ifit be referred to a Body, what isit, but the x 
Modification of that Body? Having thus propofed a Summary of my 
Thoughts about Principles I thall next proceed to thew what their 
Mixture is. á Y 
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