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it followeth, that the foule which moveth, without being 

 ftirrcd or excitated by any thing clfe, is ot a higher race then 

 they i and confequently is immateriall and voyd of Q^anti- 

 ty. But let me not bee miftaken in what I come from fay- 

 ing ; as though my meaning were, that the foule excrcifeth 

 this way of moving her fclfe , and of ordering her actions, 

 whiles fhee is in the body : for how can {hee j feeing (he is 

 never endewcd with compleate knowledge requifite for any 

 action ; never fully comprehending all the circumftances of 

 it ? But what I intend, is that the nature of the foule, con- 

 fidcred in it fclfe, is fuch, as hath a capacity and may reach 

 to this manner of working, (whence I inferre that (hee is not 

 a body but a fpirit) without determining, whether fhe worke 

 thus in the body,or out of it : that enquiry bclongeth not to this 

 place ; it will follow by and by. 



But for the prefent, having confidered unto what kind of wor- 

 king, the natnreor the foule in abftraft, is capable of attaining ; 

 we will cor elude this Chapter with reflecting upon thofe afti- 

 onsofhers, which fall daily under our remarke, as being ex- univerfality,& 

 crcifed in the body. In all of them we may obferve,that fhe pro- indifftrcncy* 

 ceedeth with a ccrtainc univerfality and indifferency, beyond the j! oth P rove 

 practice of all other creatures whatfoever. For example, if t a 

 man be fpoken to, or asked of a hundred feverall things that he 

 never thought of before in all his life, he will immediately fhape 

 pertinent replycs, to all that is faid, and returnc fitting anfwers 

 to every queftion : As, Whither fttch a ntangatk? HOTV lng 

 thvftaffe is ? What ctlottr th*t mans clothes are oj ? &c. To all 

 which,and to as many things more as you will,(fothey be with- 

 in the compafle of his knowledge J he ftraight anfwereth difTe< 

 rcntly, and to the purpoie. Whence it is manifeft, that his anf- 

 wers doe not proceed upon fet gimals or firings, whereof one 

 being ftruck, it naoveththe reft in a fet order , (which we have 

 (hewed, is the courfe in all actions done by beafts) but out of a 

 principle within him, which of it felfe is indifferent to all things; 

 and therefore can readily apply it fclfe te the anfwer, accor- 

 ding as by the queftion it is moved: and the like maybcobfer- 

 ved inhisiftions; which he varyeth according tothcoccafi- 

 onsprcfcntcd. 



