404 A TREATISE 



the fight of men., ib deeply rooted in them, is doubtleflely tranf- 

 mitted to their young ones ; for it proceedeth out of the dif- 

 pofition of the body, and cut of the paision which is immediatly 

 made in the heart j and that is as truly a material! motion, as 

 any whatfoever can be ; and muft have fetled material! inftru- 

 menrs fitted to it, if it be conftant, as well as any other natural! 

 operation vvhatibever : and thi? pafsion of the heart, procee- 

 deth againe from a perpetual! connexion of the two obje&s in 

 the memory : which being a perpetually conftant thing, is as 

 true a quality of that beaftsbraine in whom it is, as the being 

 of a quicke or dull apprehension, or the being apt to know one- 

 kinde of meat from another (which is natural! to the whole 

 fpecies ) or any other quality whatfoever , re/iding in that 

 beaft. 



Wherefore it is no wonder, that it pafieth by generation to 

 the off-fpring : which is a thing fo common, even in mankinde, 

 as there can be no doubt of it : and is at the firft made by a 

 violent caufe, that greatly altereth the body : and confequently 

 their feed muft be imbrewed with a like difpofaion ; and fo it 

 paffeth together with the nature of the fire, or of the dam, 

 into the brood. From hence proceedeth, that children do love 

 the fame meates, and exercifes, that their fathers and mothers 

 were affected with, and feare the like harmes. 



This is the reafbn, why a grand-childe of my Lord ofDorfet 

 (whole honoured name muft never be mentioned by me, with- 

 out a partkular refpeft, and humble acknowledgement of the 

 noble and fteady friendship, he hath ever been pleafed to honor 

 me with) was alwayes extremely fick, if but the Nurfe did eate 

 any Capers (againft which my Lords antipathy is famous) 

 whiles fhee gave fuck to that pretty infant. The Children of 

 great Mathematicians, who have been u/ed to bufie their fan- 

 tafies continually with figures and proportions, have been o. 

 tentimes obferved, to have a naturall bent unto thofe Sciences. 

 And we may note, that even in particular geftures, and in little 

 futgulariries in familiar conversion, children will oftentimes 

 fefetnble their parent s, as well as in the lineaments of their fa- 

 ces. The young ones of excellent fetring dogges, will have a 

 notable aptitude to that exerciie j and may bee taught with 



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