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parts of a Watch, were put into a Clock; or that there were no other 
Materials wherewith to build an Honfe, then for a Tent or a Ship. For 
why Mould Nature, the great Artificer by which all perfe Works are 
made, be feigned to cram and ram all things into one, which we 
felves look upon as abfürd? 
6. $. Secondly, The Mixture of Principles is diverfifid, as by Con- 
Jugation, fo allo by Proportion. That is, by the divers Quantities, of 
the feveral Principles or Parts mixed together. As if the Quantity of 
one, were as five to ten; of a fecond, as five to fifteen; of a third, as 
five to twenty, &e. Ort if that of one, be as five to fix 5. of a fecond, 
as fix to feven; ofa third, as féven to eight. By which, and by other 
Proportions, Mixture may be varied innumerable ways. 
7. $. Again, As Mixture is varied with refpeét to the Bodies Mix- 
ed 5 fo likewife in refpect of the Mixture it felf, which I call the Loca- 
tion of Principles, or the Modes of their Conjunition. Which may be 
various, as well as their Conjugation and Proportion. Yet are they all 
reduceable unto two general Modes : all Bodies, and therefore all Prin= 
our 
Ch. 2. $.2+ ciples, being mixed either by Mediation, or by Conta. + fac 
8. $. Now all Contact, whether of Compounds, or of Atomes, can A 
be no other way, than füch as isanfwerable to their Figures. Where- Eher 
of, therefore, we can conceive but three general ways, viz. E. 
Firft, By Contra in a Point, or fome fmaller part : as when two A- aa 
tomes meet, which are globular or otherwile gibbof. Secondly, By 1 
Contat in a Plain : asin the conjunétion of the fides of Triangular or ald 
Quadrangular Atomes, or otherwile flat. Thirdly, By Conta in a pe 
Concave : as when one Atome is admitted into the Concave or hole of “ië 
another 3 as aSpigotisintoa offer. The frf may be called, Appof-  F 
tion 3 the fecond, Application; the third, Reception or Intrufton. ps 
9. $. Inthe two laft ways, Atomes may be joyned by Mediation 5 Hr 
but belt ofall the laft. As when the tro extreams of one Atome are rer Pé 
ceived into the Cozcaves or the holes of two others. Pr 
10. $. And thefe are all the general ways,whereby we can conceive jeu 
Bodies to be Mixed together 5 fe, by their various Conjugation, Propor- Pal 
tion and Location. So that the Compofition of Atomes, in Bodies 5 is mhi 
like that of Letters, in Words, What a Thunderclap would füch a y 
Word be, wherein all the four and twenty Letters were pack’d up? 
One therefore is compounded of more, another of fewer : this of fome, 
and that of others: and both the Conjugation, Proportion, and Locati- 
on of Letters is varied in every Word: whereby, we have many thou- 
fands of differing Words, without any alteration at all, in the Letters 
themfelves, and might have ten times as many more, In like manner, 
therefore, or in the felf fame analogous way, as the Letters of the Al- 
phabet, are the Principles of Words 3 fo Principles, are the Alphabet of 
Things. 
11. $. What we have faid of Principles 5 and of Mixture as conf- 
quent thereupon ; may be a foundation for an intelligible account, 
the Nature and Canfe of moft of the Iatrinfick Propertie: 
of Bodies: asof Gravity, Levity, Fixity, Fluidity, Ang 
nefs, Heat, Cold, Blachnefs, Whitenefi, Sowernefi, Sw 
ey, Fetidnef, and very many more. I fay an intel 
fuch as is grounded ug 
chanically. 
re 
ible 
on the Notions of Senfe, and ma 
But the exemplification hereof, being too large a field 
for 
