A TreAti/e o/B O DI E S. Chap. 23. 



rmy be eafily dried into duft, when they are brufcd out of the 

 husk that inclofech them. And in every parcell of this dull, 

 the nature of the whole refideth ; as ic were contracted into a 

 finall quantity ; for the juice which was firft in the button, and 

 had patted from the root through the manifold varieties of the 

 divers parts of the plane, and had fuffered much conco&ion, 

 partly from the fun and partly from the inward heat imprifbn- 

 ed in that harder part of the fruit ; is by thele pafTages ; ftraining$ 

 and eonco&ions, become at the length to be like a tintfture ex- 

 tracted out of the whole plant ; and is at the laft dried up into a 

 iind of magiftery. This we call the {ecdrwhich is of a fit nature, 

 by being buried in the earth and diflblved with humour, to re- 

 new and reciprocate the operation we have thus described. And 

 thus, you have the formation cfa plant. 



But a fenfitive creaturc.being compared to a plant,as a plant 

 " to a m * xe ^ body ; you cannot but conceive that he muft be 

 formed, compounded as it were of many plants, in like fort as a plant is 



of many mixed bodies. But fb> that all the plants which concur 

 to make oneanimall, are of one kind of nature and cognation : 

 and befides, the matter, of which fuch diverfity is to be made, 

 muft of necefftty be more humid and figurablc, then tint of an 

 ordinary plant : and the artificer which worketh and mouldcth 

 it, muft be more active. Wherefore we muft fuppofe that the 

 mafic, of which an animall is to be made, muft be actually li- 

 quid : and the fire chat worketh upon it, muft be fo powerfull 

 that of its own naturejt may be able to convert this liquid mat- 

 ter into fuch breaths and fteams, as we fee do ufe to rife from 

 water, whea the fun or fire worketh upon it. Yet if the made 

 \verealtogether as liquid as water, it would vanifhaway by 

 heat boyling it, and be dried up : therefore it muft be of fuch a 

 convenient temper, that: although in ibme of its parts it be fluid 

 and apt to run; yet by others it muft be held together ; as we fee 

 that un&uous things for the moft part are; which will fwell by 

 hcat,but not fly away. 



So then if we imagine a great heat to be irnprifoned in fuch 

 a liqqor* and that it feeketh by boyling, to break out ; but that 

 the folidnefle and vifcuoufnefle of the fubftance will not prmic 

 it to evaporate : it cannot chufe but comport it (elfin fome fuch 

 ibrt as we fee butter or oyle in a frying pan over the fire, when 



it 



