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19. Fishes need less refrigeration than terrestrial crea 

 tures, yet some they need, and take it by their gills. And 

 as terrestrial creatures cannot bear the air that is too hot, 

 or too close, so fishes are suffocated in waters if they be 

 totally and long frozen. 



20. If the spirit be assaulted by another heat greater 

 than itself, it is dissipated and destroyed; for it cannot 

 bear the proper heat without refrigation, much less can it 

 bear another heat which is far stronger. This is to be seen 

 in burning fevers, where the heat of the putrefied humours 

 doth exceed the native heat, even to extinction or dissipa 

 tion. 



21. The want also and use of sleep is referred to refri 

 geration ; for motion doth attenuate and rarify the spirit, 

 and doth sharpen and increase the heat thereof: contrarily, 

 sleep settleth and restraineth the motion and gadding of the 

 same ; for though sleep doth strengthen and advance the 

 actions of the parts and of the liveless spirits, and all that 

 motion which is to the circumference of the body, yet it 

 doth in great part quiet and still the proper motion of the 

 living spirit. Now sleep regularly is due unto human na 

 ture once within four and twenty hours, and that for six, or 

 five hours at the least ; though there are, even in this kind, 

 sometimes miracles of nature ; as it is recorded of Maecenas, 

 that he slept not for a long time before his death. And as 

 touching the want of refrigeration for conserving of the 

 spirit, thus much. 



22. As concerning the third indigence, namely of aliment, 

 it seems to pertain rather to the parts, than to the living 

 spirit ; for a man may easily believe that the living spirit 

 subsisteth in identity, not by succession or renovation. 

 And as for the reasonable soul in men, it is above all ques 

 tion, that it is not ingendered of the soul of the parents, 

 nor is repaired, nor can die. They speak of the natural 

 spirit of living creatures, and also of vegetables, which 

 differs from that other soul essentially and formally; for 

 out of the confusion of these, that same transmigration of 

 souls, and innumerable other devices of heathens and here- 

 ticks have proceeded. 



23. The body of man doth regularly require renovation 

 by aliment every day, and a body in health can scarce 

 endure fasting three days together; notwithstanding, use 

 and custom will do much, even in this case ; but in sick 

 ness fasting is less grievous to the body. Also sleep doth 

 supply somewhat to nourishment ; and on the other side, 

 exercise doth require it more abundantly. Likewise there 



