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fubftance ‘thereof, adminiftering to the brain both fpirit and life, vital and nutri 
mental nourifhment, which comes from the heart and liver by very. minute or 
{mall veins and arteries ; and concocted and ré-concoéted, elaborated, and made very 
fubtile, pafling through thofe woven and interlaced, turning and winding, in which 
labyrinth the vital {pirit, often pafling and repaffing, is perfe€led and refined, and be- 
comes animal. . Psa 
The pia mater divides the fubftance of the brain into three certain cells and divic 
fions, the foremo{t part of which contains the moft, the middle part lefs, ‘and the 
hindmoft part the leaft. Inthe foremoft part of the brain imagination is feated ; in 
the middle, judgment; in the hindmoft part, memory: imagination ishot and dry in 
quality, quick and aétive, from whence it cometh that frantic men, and fuch as are 
fick of hot maladies, are excellent in that which belongs to imagination ; many, up- 
on fuch a diftemper, have been excellent in poetry and divination ; it never fleepeth, 
but is always working, whether the man be fleeping or waking ; and by the vapours 
that arifé from theheart, form variety of cogitations, which, wanting the regulation 
of judgment, when man ficepeth becomes a dream. ne 
Hence it appears that {ubtilety, promptitude, and that which they commonly call” 
wit, belongeth to a hot imagination: it is active, ftirring, undertaketh all, and 
fets all the reft to work ; it gathers the kinds of figures of things, both prefent, by 
_the ufe of the five fenfes, and abfent, by the common fenfe, - . iia 
ir fpirits, el{eis the ftate of the reafonable foul worfe than the vegetative or 
hich of themfelves are able to exercife their functions. __It_ were abfurd 
that fo noble and divine a faculty fhould beg affiftance of fo, vile and cor- 
e as the fenfes, which apprehend only the fimple accidents, not the na- 
nce, of things ; and, were it fo, it muft follow, that they who have theit 
nies mott perfect fhould be moft witty, whereas we many times fee the contrary. 
Yet let no one think, that the fpirit hath no fervice from the fenfes, for in the begin- 
ning, or difovery and invention of things, the fenfes do much fervice to the spirit, 
~ but the fpirit dependeth not upon the fenfes. Some are of opinion, that it 1s hot and 
moift in quality, others fay, that a dry temperature is proper to the maa 
whereby 
