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the Brain by the Nerves themfelves in Tenfion, 

 as we fee in Cords, any the leaft touch at one 

 end, pafTes fpeedily to the other when they are 

 ftretch'd, which it doth not when they are re- 

 lax'd , and not by the Spirits paffing thro' them ; 

 and on the other fide, the Infenliblenefs of Pain 

 proceeds rather from the Relaxation of the Nerves 

 than their Obftrudion ; but yet this Tenfion of 

 the Nerves and Mufcles is owing to the Spirits 

 flowing down into them and diftending them. 



VI. From the Conftancy that is obferv'd in the 

 Number, Figure, Place, and Make of all the 

 principal Parts, and from the Variety in the lefs. 

 Man is always mending and altering his Works, 

 but Nature obferves the fame Tenor, becaufe her 

 V^orks are fo perfedt, that there is no place for 

 Amendments, nothing that can be reprehended -, 

 the moil fagacious Men in fo many Ages have 

 not been able to find any Flaw in thefe divinely 

 contrived and form'd Machines, m Blot or Error 

 in this great Volume of the Worlds as if any thing 

 had been an imperfeB Efay at the fr'Ji (to ufe the 

 Bifnop of Chejiers Words) nothing that can be 

 alter'd for the better, nothing but if it were al- 

 tered would be marr'd ; this could not have been 

 had Man's Body been the Work of Chance, and 

 not Council and Providence : Why fhould there 

 be conilantly the fame Parts ? why fhould they 

 retain conilantly the fame Places? why fhould 

 they be endu'd with the fame Shape and Figure ? 

 Nodiing fo contrary as Conilancy and Cliance. 



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