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nefs is a quality of the Objeft/which 

 as 'tis perceiv'd by the mind 5 is alfo 

 an affedion of the Sentient : ) And 

 therefore an Imminution of fuch a 

 degree of former motion as is ne- 

 ceflary to make a body Hot as to 

 fenfe, and which is fufficient to the 

 Produdion of fenfible Coldnefs^may 

 be Mechanically made 5 ilnce Slow- 

 nefs as well as Swiftnefs being a 

 Mode of Local motion is a Mechani- 

 cal thing: And though its effeft^ 

 which is Coldnefsj feem a Privation 

 or Negation 5 yet the Caufe of it 

 may be a pofitive Agent a&ing Me- 

 chanically y by clogging the Agile 

 Calorific Particles, or deadning their 

 motion, or perverting their determi- 

 nation:, or by fome other intelligible 

 way bringing them to a ftate of Cold- 

 nefs as to fenfe : I fay Coldnels as 

 to fenfe 5 becaufe as 'tis a Taftile 

 Quality, in the popular acception of 

 it y 'tis relative to our Organs of 

 Feeling} as we fee that the fame 

 lukewarm water will appear hot 

 and cold to the fame mans hands r if, 



when 



