LIB. 11.30,31. 



XXX. 



Inter prcerogativas instantiarum ponemus loco nono 

 instantias limitaneas ; quas etiam participia vocare 

 consuevirnus&quot; 8 . E?c vero simt, qu?e exhibent species 

 corpornm tales, qurc videntur esse composite ex spe- 

 ciebus duabus, vel rudimenta inter speciem imam et 

 alteram. Hye vero instantirc inter instantias monodicas 

 sive heteroclitas recte numerari possunt : sunt enim in 

 universitate rerum raree et extraordinarise. Sed tamen 

 ob dignitatem seorsim tractandae et ponendce sunt. 

 Optime enim indicant compositionem et fabricam re- 

 rum, et innuunt causas numeri et qualitatis specierum 

 ordinariarum in universe, et dcducunt intellectum ab 

 eo quod est, ad id quod esse potest. 



Harum exempla sunt : muscus, inter putredinem et 

 plantain ; cometsc nonnulli, inter stellas et meteora 

 ignita ; pisces volantes, inter aves et pisces ; vesperti- 

 liones, inter aves et quadrupedes : etiam 



Simia quam similis, turpissima bestia, nobis 79 ; 

 et partus animalium biformes, et commisti ex specie- 

 bus diversis ; et similia. 



XXXI. 



Inter prcerogativas instantiarum ponemus decimo 

 loco instantias potestatis, sive fascitim, (sumpto voca- 

 bulo ab insignibus imperil ;) quas etiam ingenia, sive 

 manm hominis, appellare consuevimus 80 . Ese sunt 



&quot; 8 These Limiting Instances or &quot; inter putredinem et plantam.&quot; 



&quot; participia,&quot; (i. e. partakers of two Pome of the Zoophytes, or the 



or more kinds, just as the Par- Ornithorhyncus Paradoxus would 



ticiple in Grammar participates in be better examples. Neither Fly- 



the nature of Verb and Noun,) ex- ing-fish nor Bats are &quot;limiting&quot; 



hibit a combination of two kinds, between two kinds, except in ap- 



and so seem to stand between the pearance. 



Singular and the Deviating in- 79 This line is quoted from En- 

 stances. Bacon s examples are not nius in Cicero, De Nat. Deor. I. 35. 

 satisfactory. Moss is by no means 80 By Instances of Power, Bacon 



