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the found of his words(not rightly underwood) do frame wrong 

 lenfe of the doctrine he hath left us, which generally we follow. 

 Lee any unpartiall A riftotelian anlwer , whether the concep- 

 tions we have delivered of j?*4r/jr, of Rarity and Dtnjitj , of 

 the few* firfl Q^htics , of the combinations of the EUmtntt, of 

 the repttgntnceof-vtcititits, be not exact 1 y and rigoroufly Ari- 

 ftotles? Whether the motion of weighty and light things, and 

 ef iuc!i as are forced, be not by him, a? well as by us, attributed 

 to cxterne cau(es ? In which all the difference betweene us K, 

 that we enlarge our (elves to more particulars then he hath 

 done. Let any man read his bookes of Generation and Cor- 

 ruption , and fay whether he doth not exprefTely teach , that 

 mixcion (which he deli vereth to be the generation or making 

 of a mm body) is done ptr minim* ; that is in our language 

 and in one word, by atomes ; and %nifyeth , that all the qua- 

 lities, which arc naturall qualities following the compofition 

 of the Elements , are made by the mingling of the leaft parts or 

 atomes of the faid Elements; which is in effect to fay; that all the 

 nature of bodies , their qualities , and their operations , arc 

 Gompalfed by the mingling of atomes : the fliewing and ex- 

 pJicatingof which , hath beene our labour in this whole Trea- 

 tiie. Let him read "his bookes of Meteors , and judge whe- 

 ther he doth not give the caufes of all the effects he trea- 

 teth of there, by mingling and feparating of great and little, 

 grofle and fubtile, fiery and watery , ayery and earthy parts, 

 juft as we doe. The fame he doth in his Prrilims , and in.his 

 7*rv* mMtttraii* , and in all other places , wherefoever he hath 

 occasion to render Phyfically , the caufes of Phyficall effecls. 

 The fame doe Hippocrates and Galen : the fame, their Matter 

 Democritus; and with them the beft fort of Phyfitians : the 

 fame doe Alchymifles, with their mafter Geber > whofe 

 maxime to this purpofe, we cited above : the fame doe all 

 naturall Pfiilofbphers,either ancient commentatours of Ari- 

 ftotle, or el e mooerne enquirers into naturall effe&s , in a fen- 

 /ibleand undeiilandableway : as who will take the paines to 

 look into them, will eafil/ perceive. Whereforejet any judicious 

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