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Chap. 2 J. ^ Trf Ati fevf BODIES. 



and gla(Tc,and fuch different fubfbnces, in their feverall diftin<5l 

 fituations, perfectly compared into onecontinuatebody,which 

 if you divide, the glafTe remaincth what it was before, the Eme- 

 rald is ftill an Emerald, the filver is good filver, and the like of 

 ' the other fubftances; thecaufes of which may be ealily deduced 

 out of what we have formerly faid. But there are other bodies 

 in which this manifeft and notable difference of parts, carrieth 

 with it fi:ch a fubordination of one of them unto another , as we 

 cannot doubt but that nature made fuch engines (if fo I may call 

 them) by defigae; and intended that this variety fliould be in 

 one thing; whofe unity and being what it is, fhould depend of 

 the harmony of the feverall differing parts, and ihould be de- 

 ftroyed by their fcparation. As we lee in living creatures, whofe 

 particular parts and members being once fevered, there is no 

 longer a living creature to be found among them. 



Now.of this kind of bodies there are two forts. The fir.ft is , 

 ofthofethat feem to be one continuate fubftance, wherein we T>O fot 

 rnay obierve one and the fame conftanc progrefie throughout, 

 from the lo weft unto the highcft part of it; fo that the operation 

 gfone part is not at all different from that of another : but the 

 whole body feemeth to bethecourfe and tfaroughfare of one 

 conftanc action, varying it felf in diverfc occafions and occur- 

 rences, according to the di/pofuion of the fubjc<r. 



Tiie bodies of the fecond fbrt> have their parts fo notably ie- 

 pa rated one from che other; and each of them have fuch a pecu- 

 liar motion proper unto them, that one might conceive they 

 were every one of them a complete diftinft towll thing by it 

 felf, and that all of them were artificially tied together; were it 

 not that the fubordination of thefe parts to one another is fo 

 great, and the corrcfpondcnce between them fo ftri&, ( the one 

 not being able to fubnft without the other, from whom he deri- 

 veth what is ncedfull for him; and again, being ib ufefull unto 

 that other , and having its ad^ion and motion fo fitting and ne- 

 ceffary for it^as without it that other cannot bc:)as plainly con- 

 vinceth that the compound ofall ihefe feverall parts muft needs 

 be one individuall thing. 



I remember that when I travelled in Spain, Ifaw there two An e ?' 

 engines that in feme fcrt do exprelVe t! e naturc> of tl.cfe two ^^ lh f c .. 

 kinds of bodies. The one at Toledo, ihc other at Segovia: both v 'i rg crcawcs. 



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