OF BODIES. ChapJCXXVi. 374 



THE SIX AND THIRTIETH CHAP TER, 



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rtjtlvingi inventing 



IN the laft Chapter the foundations are lay d, and the way is ' 

 opened, for the difcovering how all operations which pro- Tbe or ^ er ai l 

 , c ' ,-r connexion of * 



cecd from nature and palnon, are performed among Jiving the f u bf e qucnt 



creatures : and therefore,! conceive,! have thereby fiiflficientjy chapters, 

 complyed with the obligation of my intention : which is but to 

 expreile and fhew [in common , how ail the actions of fcnfiblc 

 bodies may be reduced to Jocall motion , and to material! ap- 

 plication of one body unto another, in a like manner (though in 

 a different degree) as thofe motions which we lee in livelieft bo- 

 dies. Yet becaufe among fuch animals aspafle for irrational!, 

 there happen fome operations of fb admirable a ftrainc , as re- 

 iemble very much the higheft effects which proceed from a 

 man: I thinke it not amifle, to give fome further light, by exr- 

 tending my difcourle to fome more particulars then hitherto I 

 have done j whereby the courfe and way how they are perfor- 

 med, may be more clearely and eafily looked into : and the ra- 

 ther, becaufe I have met with fbme men , who either wanting 

 patience to be/iow on thoughts of this kind ib much time as is 

 neceflary for the due {canning of themjor elfe through a promp- 

 titude of nature, palling fwiftly from the effect they looke upon 

 in groffe , to the moft obvious feeming caufe j do fuddenly and 

 itrongly refblve, that beattsufe di/courle upon occafions^ and 

 areendewed with reafbn. 



This I intend not to doe quite in particular, for that were to 

 write the hiftory of every particular animal : but will content 

 my felfe with touching the caufes in common ; yet in fitch fort, 

 that the indifferent Reader may be fatisfied of a poffibility, that 

 thefe effects may proceed from materiall caules : and that I 

 have pointed out the way, to thofe who are more curious , and 

 have the patience and leifure to obferve diligently what palTeth 

 among beafts,how they may trace thefe effects from Rep to ftep, 

 ttmill gt length they dilcovet their true caules, 



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