LIB. II. 40. 261 



Quare in inquisitione circa hujusmodi corpora, deduc- 

 tionibus omnino est opus. 



Sit itaque natura inquisita, actio et motus spiritus 38 , 

 qui includitur in corporibus tangibilibus. Omne enim 

 tangibile apud nos continet spiritum invisibilem et in- 

 tactilem, eique obducitur, atque eum quasi vestit. Hinc 

 fons triplex potens ille, et mirabilis processus spiritus in 

 corpore tangibili. Spiritus enim in re tangibili, emis- 

 sus, corpora contrahit et desiccat; detentus, corpora 

 intenerat et colliquat: nee prorsus emissus, nee pror- 

 sus detentus, informat, membrificat, assimilat, egerit, 

 organizat, et similia. Atque hsec omnia deducuntur ad 

 sensibile per effectus conspicuos. 



Etenim in omni corpore tangibili inanimate, spiritus 

 inclusus primo multiplicat se, et tanquam depascit par- 

 tes tangibiles eas, quae sunt maxime ad hoc faciles et 

 praeparatoe ; easque digerit, et conficit, et vertit in spi 

 ritum, et deinde una evolant. Atque lisec confectio et 

 multiplicatio spiritus deducitur ad sensum per diminu- 

 tionem ponderis. In omni enim desiccatione aliquid 

 defluit dequanto; neque id ipsum ex spiritu tantum 

 prseinexistente, sed ex corpore quod prius fuit tangi 

 bile, et noviter versum est : spiritum enim non ponde- 



38 See I. 50 (note 64). This search Pantheism ; and is more like a crude 

 after the nature of &quot; Spirits&quot; was in and obscure conception of Electri- 

 reality a search for the principle of city, and gaseous agencies, than 

 Life in &quot; Animate&quot; objects but it ought else. To illustrate Bacon s 

 was also more : for Bacon speaks language, I may venture again to 

 often of the &quot; Spirit&quot; in Iron. It quote Milton s Paradise Lost, v. 

 is however very far from modern 484. 



&quot; Flowers and their fruit 



Man s nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, 



To vital Spirits aspire, to Animal, 



To intellectual give both life and sense, 



Fancy and understanding ; whence the Soul 



Reason receives, and Reason in her Being 



Discursive or Intuitive.&quot; 



