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that dies, by its inceflant Motion diftribut;ing the 

 Blood, the Vehicle of Life, and with it the vital 

 Heat and Spirits, throughout the whole Body, 

 whereby it doth continually irrigate, nouriih, and 

 keep hot, and fupple all the Members. Is it not 

 admirable that from this Fountain of Life and 

 Heat there fhould be Channels and Conduit-pipes 

 to every, even the leaft and m.oft remote Part of 

 the Body ? Juft as if from one Water-houfe there 

 fhould be Pipes conveying the Water to every 

 Houfe in a Town, and to every Room in each 

 Houfe ; or from one Fountain in a Garden there 

 ihould be little Channels or Dikes cut to every 

 Bed, and every Plant growing therein, as we 

 have feen more than once done beyond the Seas. 

 I confefs the Heart feems not to be defign'd 

 to fo noble an Ufe as is generally believ'd, that 

 is, to be the Fountain or Confervatory of the vi- 

 tal Flame, and to infpire the Blood therewith 

 (for the Lungs ferve rather for the Accenfion, or 

 maintaining that Flame, the Blood receiving there 

 from the Air thofe Particles which are one Part 

 of the Pabuhimy or Fuel thereof, and fo impreg- 

 nated, running back to the Heart) but to ferve 

 as a Machine to receive the Blood from the 

 Veins, and to force it out by the Arteries thro* 

 the whole Body, as a Syringe doth any Liquor, 

 though not by the fame Artifice ; and yet this 

 is no ignoble Ufe, the continuance of the Circu- 

 lation of the Blood being indifpenfably neceffary 

 for, the quickning and enlivening of all the Mem- 

 bers of the Body, and fupplying of Matter to 

 the Brain, for the Preparation of the animal Spi- 

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