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n and-condenfation-entering into their very constitution, 

 and breeding another temperament, by Operation of Tome of 

 their parts, and in their ft ead mingling others. Phntes^nd tree* 

 and otr e: living creatures will tell you,that their nourifbmcnt , 

 being iniinuated through their whole bodies, by /ubdJe pores, 

 and blincfepaffageSjiftriey either beftopedby any accident , or 

 e-liebe fiJLdvvith bad nourishment, the mixture of the whole 

 failethofit feife.and they corne to dye. Thofe things which are 

 violently deftroyed, we &e are made away, for the moft part by 

 divifion; ib fire by divifion deiiroyeth aJlthat commethinits 

 way; To living creatures are de^royed^y their parting of their 

 <bloud from their flsfh, or of one membir from an other, or by 

 *-he evaporation or eytin&ion of their natural 1 heat. In fine,wa 

 are fure that all things, which within our knowledge loofe their 

 */* do fo by reafon of their Qiiantity;which by divi/ion, r r by 

 rarefadion, and comprefiion , gainetJi fome new temperature, 

 that doth not confift with theirformer temper. After thefepre. 

 mifles, I need lay no more: the conclufion difplayeth ic.felfe rea-- 

 ciily and plainly ,wichout any further trouble; for ifourlaboure 

 hath beene hitherto , to fliew that- our fouleis indivifible, and 

 ihat her opperations are fuch as admit not quantitative parts in 

 her;it is cieare,that (he can not be mortall^by any ofthofe waycs- 

 whereby we fee ih r ngs round about us to perifli, 



The like argument we roay frame out of locall^notion; for 

 feeing that alJ the alterative actions we are acqua nted withall, 

 be performed by locall motion ( as is delivered.both in groflc, 

 and by detaile,in our Mrft'TreatifeJand that Aridole.and all un-- 

 derftandin Phylo/bphers doe agree , thers can be n& locall mo 

 lion inan radivifible thing ( the reafon whereof is evident-, to 

 whomsoever refledeth upon the nature of PUee, and of locall 

 *v*tte*)itfaauatik&:, that there can be no motion to hurt I he 

 foulefince /liee is concluded to be/W/w/T^, 



The common argument likewife -aleclin this matter, ammoun- 



^^ tet h to the fame effeclrr-owir, thacfince things are deftroyed on_ 



Tlie feme is ty by their contrariesjthat thing which hath no contrary, is not 



proved be- $&)&. to deflru^ionrfwhich Principle both Fteafon and expe- 



<iufc!thc foule . J , 



hh >no con- nence,do every whereconfirme: )but a humane louie is not lub- 



wry, jccl to contrariety; and therefore fuch an one can notbede- 



