2. 



The rcafon 

 why no body 

 can xvork in 

 Pittance. 



through leather, when to purrfie it, or to bring 

 an Amalgamate a due confidence, it is (trained through the 

 fides of it. 



Now thefe fliowrs or ftreams of atomes ilfuing from thecom- 

 prcfled body, are on all fides round about it at exceeding little 

 dirtances; becaufe the pores out of which they are driven, arc fo 

 likewife. And coniequcntly, there they remain round about bc- 

 fieging it, as though they would return to their originall homcsi 

 as loon as the ufurping Grangers that were too powerfull for 

 them, will give them leave. And according to the multitude of 

 them,and to the force with which they are driven out; the com- 

 paflethey take up round about the comprefled body ,is greater or 

 lefTer. Which bciicging atomes are notfo foon carried away by 

 cny exterior and accidentall caufes, but they are fupplied by new 

 emanations fuccceding them out of the laid comprefTed body. 



Now this which we have declared by the example of- cold, 

 comprefling a particular body, hapneth in all bodies wherefo- 

 ever they be in the world : for this being the unavoydablc effect 

 of heat and ofcold> wherefoever they refide ; fwhich are the 

 active qualities, by whofe means not onely fire and water and 

 the other two Elements ; but all other mixed bodies competed 

 of the Elements, have their activity) and they being in all bo- 

 dies whatfoevcr(as we have proved abovc)it followeth evident- 

 Jy,that there is not a body in the world,biit hath about it felfan 

 orbe of emanations of the fame nature which that body is of. 

 Wilhin thccompafle of which orbe,when any other body com- 

 eth that receiveth an hnmtitation by the little atomes whereof 

 that orbe is compofed, the advenient body feemeth to be a(fedl- 

 edand as it were replenished with the qualities .of the body from 

 whence they iflue. Which is then faid to work upon the body 

 that imbibcth the emanations that flow from it. And becauie 

 this orbe(regularly fpeaking) is in the form of a lphere,the paf- 

 five body is faid to be within the fphere of the others a&ivity. 



Secondly, when Philofophers pronounce : that tfo corpore- 

 <*// nature can opcrari in difttns' that is, that no body can work 

 upon another remote from it, without working firft upon the 

 body that lieth between them, which muft continue and piece 

 up the operation from the agent to the patient. The rea(bn and 

 truth of this maxime is in our Philofbphy evidentjrbr we having 



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