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Of the POWE RandUS E of Mixture. 
AAVING enumerated the ‚general Canfes , we fhail; 
Jaftly, enquire into the Power and Use of Mixture 5 
or, into what it can Do and Teach. And I fhall In+ 
ftance in fiz particulars. First, to Renderall Bodies 
Sociable, whatfoever they be. Secondly, To Make 
Artificial Bodies in Imitation of thofe of Naturesown 
production. Thirdly, to make or imitate the fenfible 
Qualities of Bodies; as Smells, and Tafts. Fourthly; 
To make, or imitatetheir Faculties. Fifthly, It isa Key, to difcover 
the Nature of Bodies. Sixthly, To difcover their Uf, and the Manner 
of their Medicinal Operation. 
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TR ST, To render all Bodies Sociable or Mingleable: as Water 
with Oyl, Salt with Spirit, and the like. For Natural and Artis, 5 6 
mafe Jija! Mixture, are the fame 5 as we have before proved. If therefore -h.3. 9.185 
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vertan, fi “Nature can do it, as we fee in the Gezeration of Bodies fhe doth, ‘tis 
dwith Di Jikewife in the Power of Art to do it. $ 
emor, tht 2. $. And for the doing of it, two general Rules refalt from the 
priment, © Premiffes, fe. The Application of Canfes, and the Choice of Materials. 
igi sj’ As for the Canfes, they are fuch as] have now inftanc'd in. Andfor Ch. 4. 
et the Application of them, Ithall give thefe two Rules. 
dbk The 3. $. Firft, That we tread in Natures fteps as near as we can 5 not 
ig marea only in the Application of fuch a Canfe, as may be molt proper for fucha 
iobi Mixtures but alfo in allowing it fifficient time forits efè, For fowe fee 
fol) Nature her Elf, for her more perfe# Mixtures , ufually doth, She 
ead maketh not a Flower, or an Apple, a Horfe, or a Man, in a moment 5 
g pete butallthings by degreess and for her more perfec? and elaborate Mix- 
1 tures, for the molt part, fhe requireth more time. Becaufe all fuch 
me Mixtures are made and carri'd on per minima; and therefore require a 
greater time for the compleating of them. 
4. $. A fecond Rule is, Not only to make a due Application of 
the Canfes 3 but fometimes to Accumulate them. By which means, we 
may not only, imitate Nature, but in fome cafes go beyond her. For 
Graft or Bud to the Stock, we may produce Fruit fooner, 
and fometimes better, than Nature by the Stock alone would do: So 
here, by accumulating the Canfès of Mixture, that is, by joyning two, 
e, Or moret r3 or byapplying more in fome Cafes, wher: 
applycth fewer; we may be able to make, if not a more perfect, 
r more fp redoth. As by joyning Com- 
Heat, andviolent Agitation, and lo continuing them all to- 
ed for the purpofe, for the fpa 
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