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water : but a fine attenuated body, of kin to air, though again very 

 different from it. Let it be held as certain, that there is in all 

 (( . tan p t)Je bodies a spirit, or pneurnatical substance, enveloped and 

 ft included in the tangible parts ; every tangible body, with us, con- 

 tt tains an invisible and untangible spirit, over which the body is 

 &amp;lt; K r !i Wn a ff arment - For spirits are nothing else but a natural 

 rj7 ranfied to a proportion, and included in the tangible parts of 

 bodies, as m an integument. And they be no less differing one 

 tg trom the other, than the dense or tangible parts ; and they 

 ^are in all tangible bodies whatsoever, more or less.&quot; And in 

 ; tne treatise &quot; De Au^fcentis,&quot; having divided the science of man, 

 (( as an individual, into mind and body, he says 1. Now let 

 us proceed to the knowledge which concerns the mind or 

 soul of man, out of the treasures whereof all other know- 

 \ t ledges are extracted. It hath two parts, the one entreateth of the 

 reasonable soul, which is a thing divine ; the other of the unreason- 

 ft able soul, which is common to us with beasts. We have noted a 

 little before (where we speak of forms) those two different emana 

 tions of souls, which in the first creation of them both, offer them- 

 selves unto our view ; that is, that one hath its original from the 

 tf breath of God ; the other from the matrices of the elements ; for of 

 the primitive emanation of the rational soul : thus speaks the Scrip- 

 lure, Deus formavit hominem de limo terras, et spiravit in faciem 

 tf ejus spiraeuluto vitae : but the generation of the unreasonable soul, 

 ^ or ot beasts, was accomplished by these words ; producat aqua, 

 producat terra : and this irrational soul, as it is in man, is the in- 

 strument only to the reasonable soul ; and hath the same original 

 in us, that it hath in beasts ; namely, from the slime of tlie earth 

 l ^ for it is not said, God formed the body of man of the slime of the 

 earth, but God formed man, that is the whole man, that spiraculum 

 excepted. Wherefore we will stile that part of the general know- 

 ^ ledge concerning man s soul, the knowledge of the spiracle, or 

 inspired substance ; and the other part, the knowledge of the sen 

 sible or product soul.&quot; 

 So Plato s doctrine of the Soul of the World ; see also 6. CEneicl 



Principle coalum.ac terras, camposq liquentes, 

 &quot; Lucenteinq globum lunae, Titaniaq astra 

 &quot; Spiritus intus alit totamq infusa per artus 

 &quot; Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.&quot; 

 In Wordsworth s Excursion, he says, 



To every form of being is assigned, 

 &quot; Thus calmly spake the venerable sage, 

 An active principle : howe er removed 

 From sense and observation, it subsists 

 In all things, in all natures, in the stars 

 Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, 

 In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone 



That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, 

 The moving waters, and the invisible air. 

 Whate er exists hath properties that spread 

 Beyond itself, communicating good, 

 A simple blessing, or with evil mixed; 

 Sj.irit that knows no insulated spot, 

 No chasm, no solitude, from link to link 

 &quot; It circulates, the soul of all the worlds. 

 See also Berkeley s Siris, 133, and the beginning of the Minute 



