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As another specimen, the mode of explaining the 

 condensation of spirit by flight may be selected. 

 Flight. The spirit, he says, is condensed by flight, cold, 



appeasing, and quelling. The condensation by flight is 

 when there is an antipathy between the spirit and the body 

 upon which it acts ; as, in opium, which is so exceedingly 

 powerful in condensing the spirit, that a grain will tran 

 quillize the nerves, and by a few grains they may be so 

 compressed as to be irrecoverable. The touched spirit 

 may retreat into its shell for a time or for ever ; or it may, 

 when fainting, be recalled, by the application of a stimulant, 

 as surprise from a sudden impulse ; a blow, or a glass of 

 water thrown on the face ; or the prick of a pin, or the 

 action of mind on mind. 



&quot; I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand 

 Any exploit worthy the name of honour.&quot; 



D eat h. As another specimen, his sentiments upon Death, the 



decomposition of compounds, may be selected. 



In his doctrine of motion, he says, &quot; The political motion 

 is that by which the parts of a body are restrained, from 

 their own immediate appetites or tendencies to unite in 

 such a state as may preserve the existence of the whole 

 body. Thus, the spirit, which exists in all living bodies, 

 keeps all the parts in due subjection; when it escapes, 

 the body decomposes, or the similar parts unite as 



them souls. And such superficial speculations they have; like prospectives, 

 that shew things inward, when they are but paintings.&quot; Sylva, Exp. 98. 



(a) Principio coelum, ac terras, camposq: liquentes, 

 Lucentemq: globum lunse, Titaniaq: astra, 

 Spiritus intus alit totamq: infusa per artus 

 Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet. JEneid. 



Plato s doctrine, respecting the &quot; Anima Mundi,&quot; or soul of the world, 

 pervading and vivifying all created things, see Berkeley s Sins, p. 133, 

 and Mandeville on Hypochondriacism. 



