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to fee, how arbitrarily the Peripate* 

 ticks derive the Qualities of bodies 

 from their four Elements,as if,to give 

 an inftance in the lately named Qua* 

 \\Vj ^Liquidity ^ you fhew them exact- 

 ly deflegmed Spirit ofWine^ and ask 

 them, whence it has its great Fluid- 

 nefs , they will tell you from water, 

 which yet is far lefs fluid than it^and 

 this fpirit of wine it felf is much lefs 

 fothan the flame into which the fpi- 

 rit of wine iseafily refoluble. But if 

 you ask, whence it becomes totally 

 inflammable, they muft tell you,from 

 the fire 3 and yet the whole body, at 

 leaft as far as fenfe can difcover, is 

 fluid, and the whole body becomes 

 flame, (and then is rooft fluid of allj) 

 fo that fire and water as contrary as 

 they make them^muft both be by vaft 

 odds predominant in the fame body. 

 This fpirit of wine alfo, being a li- 

 quor whofe leaft parts that are fen* 

 fibleare a&ually heavy, and compofe 

 a Liquor which is feven or eight hun* 

 dred times as heavy as Air of the 

 fame bulk , which yet experience 



(hews 



