OF BODIES. Cbap.XXXVI. 



the principle* we have already eliabliflied ; and the waies of per- 

 forming them may. ! be pitched upon by fuch difcourfes about 

 them , as we have made about thofe examples we have above 

 produced. Efpeciallv if the actions them/elves \vereobferved 

 by one that could judge of them.and were reported with a dc/are 

 of exprdfing the truth iwkedly as in it felfe it iicth ; for divers 

 times it hapneth,that men fay ing nothing but truth, docxpreffe 

 it in fuch amanner^and with liich terras.,! hat the ignorant hearer 

 conceiveth the tiling quite another way, then indeed itis.meerly 

 for the too emphaticaJl exprefs ions : e/pccially if the rclatour 

 himfeliemkleth in conceiving the true caules of what herepor- 

 teth_, and foexppefTeth it proportionate to thofe which he ap- 

 prehendcth. 



To conclude then this firft branch, we fee how the doubting, 

 the refolvmg.,the aymio&the inventing, and che like, which we 

 experience in beafts.,may byiheveftigiaeswehave traced out, 

 be followed unto their root , as far as the divifionafTanty and 

 deniity ; without needing to repaire unto any higher principle, 

 laving the vviiHoarie of the orderer and Architect of nature , in 

 fb admirably diipofing and mingling thefe materiall, groffe, and 

 lifelefTe bfidies , djar Grange effe&s and incomprehenitble unto 

 Lhem,who will not looke into their ieverall /O}i5ts, may follow 

 out of them, foe the good of the creature in \vhofe behalfe they 

 are fojordered. 



But before we go to the next point, we cannot forbcare men- 

 tioning their vanity as well as ignorance , who to purchaie the of the feveraft ; 

 cftimation of deeper knowers of nature, would have it believed, ayings and 

 that bealh have compleat languages, as men have, to diicourle to of beafts: : 

 with one another in; which they vanted they had the intelligence with a refuta- 



f T L r i ii " f tion'of thufe 



of. It is true , that in us /peaking or talking is aii operation of aHt hors who 

 reafon ; not because it is inreafora ^ but becaufe i:is the wr/e of mainrainthem 

 reafon^y another inliruinent; and is no where to be found with- to 'We com- 5 

 out reafon: which thofe irrational! Phiioibphers , that preten- P lcat 

 ded to underftand the language of bealk, allowed them . as well 8C$ * 

 a$ the ability of talking to one another : but it was becaufe they 

 had more pride then knowk;dge. Of which ranke one of che chief 

 was Apollonius, furnamed from Thy ana 5 for if he had knowne 

 how to looke into the nature of beafts, he would have perceived 

 the reafbn of the cfcvejrs voyces whiich the ( fame beaii in divers 

 eecafiom formeth. This 



