A TREATISE 



by like fuccetflon, are delivered over into the memory : from 

 whence, when they are called back againe into the fantafie,they 

 move likewiie fucceiftvely ; ib that in truth, all our memory 

 will be of motion ; or at the leaft, of bodies in motion : yet it is 

 not chiefly of motion, but of the things that are moved ; urr 

 lefle it be, when we remember words : and how thofe motions, 

 do frame bodies which move in the braine, we have already 

 touched. 



THE THREE AND THIRTIETH CHAP. 



i: TT\Uthow arethefe things conferred in the braine ? And 



How things fr-C how do they revive in the fantafie, the fame motions 4>y 



r V m rv *^vhich they came in thither at the firft ? Monfieur des 



10 y Cartes hath put us in hope of an explication : and were I Ib hap- 



y,as to have feen that worke of his, which the World of learned 



men Co much longeth for 5 I aflure my felfe , I fhould herein 



"receive great helpe and furtherance by it. Although withall, I 



muft profefle, I cannot understand how it is poflfole.,tfiat any 



determinate motion fhould long be preferved untainted in the 



brainc j where there muft be fuch a. multitude of other morions 



in the way ..to mingle with it^and bring all into confafion. One 



Hay I hope this Jewell will be expofed to publik view, bcrh to do 



the Author right.and to inftruft the World. 



In the meane time , let us fee what otft- own principles afford 

 us. We have refblved , that fenfation is not a pure driving of 

 the anifnall fpifits , or of fome penertrable body in which they 

 fwim, againflthatpart of thetraine, vyhcre knovvledge re- 

 fideth : but that it is indeed the driving thithet of folid materi- 

 all bod : es ( exceeding little ones) that come from the ob- 

 je<fh themfelves. Which pofition, if it be true, itfbUoweth 

 that rhde 'bodies muft rebound from thence upon other part j 

 oftbebraine j where at the length they find ibme vacant ceW, 

 in which they keepe their ranks and files, in "great quiet and 

 ; all fuch flicking together, and keeping company with 

 thacejitcream together ' and the they JyetfWH 



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