Chap. 2$. 4 Treattfeof BODIES. 



part and member be as it were a complete thing of it felf, ycc 

 every one requireth to be directed and put on in its motion by 

 another; and they muft all of them(though of very different na- 

 tures and kinds of motion) confpire together to cftcft any thing 

 that may be for the ufe and fervice of the whole. And thus we 

 find in them perfe&Iy the nature of a mover and a moveable ; 

 each of them moving differently from one another, and framing 

 to themfelves their own motions, in fuch fort as is moft agree- 

 able to their nature, when that part which fcttcth them on work 

 hath ftirred them up. 



And now becaufc thefe parts (the movers and the moved) 

 are parts of one whole j we call the entire thing atttontatum or 

 fe ntovens or a living creature. Which alfb may be fitly com- 

 pared to a joyner, or a painter, or other craftfman, that had his 

 tools fo exactly fitted about him, as when he had occafion to 

 do any thing in his trade, his tool for that adion were already 

 in the fitteft pofitron for it,tobemade u(c of,fo as without remo- 

 ving himfelf from the place where he might fit invironed with 

 his tools, he might, by onely pulling of fbmc little chords, either 

 apply the matter to any remote tool, or any of his tools to the 

 matter he would work upo.according as he findeth the one or the 

 other more convenient for perfbrmacc of the action he incedcth. 



Whereas in the other,there is no variety of motions ; but one 

 and the fame goeth quite through the body from one end of it 

 to the other. And the paflage of the moyfture through it, from 

 one part to another next (which is all the motion it hath) is in 

 a manner but like the rifing of water in a ftill, which by heat is 

 made to creep up by the fides oftheglaflc; and from thence run- 

 neth through the nofe of the limbeke., and falleth into the re- 

 ceiver. So that, if we will fay that a plant livcth, or that the 

 whole moveth it felf, and every part moveth other ; it is to be 

 undcrftood in a farre more imperfect manner, then when \vc 

 fpeak of an animal!: and the fame words are attributed to both, 

 in a kind ofequivocall fcnfe. But by the way I muft note, that 

 under the title of plants I include not 'zoophytes or plantani- 

 mals : that is fuch creatures as though they go nor froirj phcc 

 to place, and focatife a locall motion ofti.cir whole kibfrahce, 

 yet in their parts, they have a dittinft and articulate motion. 

 But to leave comparifonsjand come to the proper nature of the 



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