Chap. 8. A Trtttife of B O D I E S. rf 



nature abhorre From lying are naturally apt to flrain a little and 

 fjiliion uj^in a handfome mould; and almoft to perP.vade thcm- 

 felvcs they faw more then they did : fo innate it is to every man, 

 to defirc the having of fomc preeminence beyond his neigh- 

 bours ; be it but in pretending to have icen fomething which 

 they have not. 



Therefore, before I engage my felf in giving any particular 

 anfwer to this objection of pretended inconfumptible lights, I 

 \vouldgladty fcetheeffefl certainly averred and undoubtedly 

 proved : for, theteftimonics which Fortunius Licetusproducetli 

 fwho hath been very diligent in gathering then), and very fub- 

 tile in di'courfing upon tl em ; and is the exa&eft Authour that 

 hath written upon this fubjeft) do not feem iinto me to make 

 thatcertaimy, which is required for the eftablifliing of aground 

 in Philofophy. Neverthelefle, if there be any certain experi- 

 ence in this particular, I fhotild think thac there might be ibmc 

 Art by circulation of fewell, to maintain the fame light for a 

 great company of years. But I fhould not eafily be pcrfwaded, 

 that either flame or light could be made without any manner 

 of confuming the body which lervcth them for fewell. 



CHAP. VIII. 



9s4* anfwer to three other ob]e&ions formerly 



frofofed, **i*ft light being 



a {ubfttncc. 



HAving thui defended o*r {elves from their objections, who Lloht '" n 

 would not allow light to be fire; and having fatisfied ally ia 'ctct/ 

 their inquifition, who would know what bccomcth of it when f *" of f h f 



j i_ -c- L L j -it i /-i roomitcnlioht. 



it cyetn, if it be a body : we will now apply our felves to an- n t h,oor fii h 

 fwer their difficulties, who ivill not let it pa(fe for a body, Ste^tTfS; 

 becaufc it is in the /amc place with an other body ; as, when though it item 

 the funne- beams enlighten all the aire, and when the (everall 

 lights of two diftinft candles arc both of them every where in 

 the fame rooir. Which is the fubftance of the fecond main 

 objection. 



This of the j'uftling of the aire, rs eafily anfwcred thus : that 

 the aire being a very divifible body, doth without refinance 

 yield as much place as is requisite for light. And that light, 



E though 



