OF BODIES > Chap. XXXV. 



rhem,promifcuoufly apt to receive into ihcm.all forts offpirits, 

 hovvfocver they bemoved.'and therfore,we may aflure cur felvcs 

 that fince in thefe div erfities ofoccalions , there are likewife di- 

 vers kinds of motions from the heart;either there is proportio- 

 nable unto them, divers kinds of patfages fit to receive and enter- 

 uinc the fpirits, according to the conairion they are in, fo as the 

 paflages which are ajnftedto one kind of ipirits , will not admit 

 any of an other nature: or elfe,the firft motions of* liking or dif- 

 liking in the heart., which(as we have faid) do caufe a fweJling or 

 a contraction of it againft this or that parr; doth flop and hinder 

 the entrance of the Ipirits into fome finews , and doth open o- 

 thers.and driveth thc/pirits into themric as in the end, by a re- 

 fukofachaineof fvycllings and con fractions of feverall parts 

 iucceflively one againft an other, the due motions cf profecuti- 

 on or averlion are brought about. 



As for example;an objedt that affecleth the heart with liking, 

 by dilating the fpirirs abour the hear^fendeth feme into theoptik 

 nerves, and maketh the living creature trne his eye towards it 

 and keepe it lieady upon what he defireth : as contrariwile, if he 

 diflikeand feare it ..he naturally turneth his eye and head from 

 it. Now,, of this motion of the eye and head, may depend the 

 running to the thing in one cafe, and the running from it in the 

 other : for the turning of the neck one way, may open a paflage 

 for the fpirits into thole iinewes^vhich carry the reft of the bo- 

 dy towards the object : and the turning of it to the other fide, 

 may open other finewes_which fhall work a contrary effect, and 

 carry the animal! from theobjed rand the moving of thole fi- 

 ne\ves,,which at- the firft do turne the neck, dotb-proceed from' 

 the quality and number of the fpirits that afcend from the heart, 

 and from the region of the hearr from whence they arc fent : 

 according to the variety whereo^there arc divers finewes fitted 

 to receive them. 



To make up which difconrfe^ve may call to mind,what we have 

 faid a little above,concerning the motions cau/ed in the external 

 parts of the body,by paflionmoving withinras when feare ming- 

 led with hope, giveth a motion to the legs, anger to the armes & - 

 ha-nds,and all the reft of the body , as well as to the legs ;and all of 

 thcm.ajnattention in thecutward fenfesiwhichncvertheleffe per- 

 everyoBC of their ftuitf ions,if the paflionbe in extremity 



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