324 PHYSICAL EXPRESSION. 



Contrivance of Instruments of all our outward 

 motions, which give motion and regulate the Dyall 

 of the Affections, which Nature hath placed in 

 the face of Man ; Being a New Light, and the first 

 Irradiation which ever appeared through the Dis- 

 sections of a Corporeal Phylosophy" (Dedicatory, 

 p. 2). 



"The whole head with its comprised parts, by 

 the benefit of certain Muscles might be enabled to 

 move, and by motion, to expresse the affections of 

 the mind "(p. 51). 



"Having resolved to trace the Discoursing 

 Actions of the Head to their Spring and Principle 

 upon which their outward significations depend; 

 when I had passed the superficial parts, and digged 

 a little more than skin-deepe into the Miiierall of 

 Cephalicall Motion; I came to the Muscles, the 

 instruments of voluntary motion; or the instru- 

 ments of those motions that are done by an earnest 

 affection, that is, from an inward principle. The 

 effects of whose moving significantly appeare in 

 the parts moved, when by an arbitrary motion we 

 freely reject or embrace things understood (not 

 with our minde only, but with our mind and body 

 both) " (p. 4). 



"There hath not been any one who, Data Opera, 

 had undertaken a generall Survey and Cognomina- 

 tion of the muscles of the Body, as they are the 

 necessary Instruments of all those motions of the 

 Mind, which are apparently expressed and made 

 manifest by the effect of their use and moving in 

 all the parts of the Body ; although more Emphatic- 



