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whatfoevcr; likewifc, it may in fuch fort as they , be wounded 

 and have its continuity broken by hard things; be pleated and 

 poliflicd by thofethac are fofc and fmooch; be piefled by thole 

 that arc thick and heavie; and be rubbed by chofe that arc rug- 

 ged, &c. 



So that thofc maflers who will teach us that the imprefsions , 



upon fenfe are made by Ipirituall or fpirit-like things or quali- 

 ties, which they call intentionall fpecicfes, muft labour at two 

 works: the oae to make it appear that there are in nature fuch 

 things as they would perfwade us; the ocher,to prove that thelc 

 iriateriall aclions we Ipeak of are not able to perform thole cf- 

 fefts, for which the fenles are given unto living creatures. And 

 untill they have done that, I conceive we fliould be much too 

 blame to admit fuch things, as we neither have ground for in 

 rcafon, nor can underftand what they arc. And therefore we 

 muft refblve to reft in this belief, which experience breedcth in 

 us; that thefe bodies work upon our {enfes no other waycs then 

 by a corporeall operation ; and that fuch a one is fufficient for 

 all the effects we fee proceed from them : as in the proccflc of 

 this difcomrfe wefhall more amply declare. 



The clement immediately next to earth in grofTenefle, is wa- 4. 

 ter. And in it is the exercife of our taft, our mouth being per- 9 fchr , taft and 



ii i r c L- i n its qualities: 



petually wet within; by means of which moyfture, our tongue that they arc 

 receiveth into it fome little parts of the fubftance which we 

 chew in our teeth, and which pafTeth over it. You may obfervc 

 how, if we take any herb or fruit, and having chopped or beat- 

 en it fmall, we then put it into a wooden difh of water and do 

 fqueeze it a little; the juyce communicating and mingling it (elf 

 Virh the water, infe&cth it with the taft of it (elf, and remain- 

 ing a while in the bowl, finkcth by little and little into the ve- 

 ry pores of the wood- as is nianifcft by its retaining a long time 

 after the taft and fmell of that herb. In like manner, nature 

 hath taught us by chewing our meat* and by turning it into our 

 mouthes and prefsing it a little (that we may the. more eafily 

 fvvallow it) to imbue our fpittle wtth fueh little parts as eafily 

 diffulethcmfclves in water. And then our fpittle beincontinu- 

 ate to the moyfrtire which is within our tongue, (in fuch (brt as 

 *ve declared of the moyfture of the earth that foakcthinto the 



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