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another head : but the drawing of amber and jet, 

 and other electric bodies, and the attraction in gold 

 of the spirit of quicksilver at distance ; and the at 

 traction of heat at distance ; and that of fire to 

 naphtha ; and that of some herbs to water, though 

 at distance ; and divers others ; we shall handle, but 

 yet not under this present title, but under the title 

 of attraction in general. 



907. The fourth is the emission of spirts, and im- 

 materiate powers and virtues, in those things which 

 work by the universal configuration and sympathy 

 of the world ; not by forms, or celestial influxes, as 

 is vainly taught and received, but by the primitive 

 nature of matter, and the seeds of things. Of this 

 kind is, as we yet suppose, the working of the load 

 stone, which is by consent with the globe of the 

 earth : of this kind is the motion of gravity, which is 

 by consent of dense bodies with the globe of the 

 earth : of this kind is some disposition of bodies to 

 rotation, and particularly from east to west : of 

 which kind we conceive the main float and refloat of 

 the sea is, which is by consent of the universe, as 

 part of the diurnal motion. These immateriate 

 virtues have this property differing from others ; that 

 the diversity of the medium hindereth them not ; but 

 they pass through all mediums, yet at determinate 

 distances. And of these we shall speak, as they are 

 incident to several titles. 



908. The fifth is the emission of spirits ; and this 

 is the principal in our intention to handle now in this 

 place ; namely, the operation of the spirits of the 



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