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3\Quurall Hiftory ; 



Men, and make them warlike ; To make them Soft and Effeminate ^ To 

 make them Grave To make them Light •, To make them Gentle and in- 

 clin'd to Pity, &c. The Caufe is, for that the Senfe of Hearing ftnketh the 

 Spirits more immediately, than the other Senfes And more incorporeally 

 than the Smelling 5 For the Sigh, Taft,md Feeling, have their Organs, not 

 of fo prefent and immediate Accel's to the Spirits, as the Hearing hath. And 

 as for the Smelling, (which indeed worketh alfo immediately upon the Spi- 

 rits, and is forcible while the Objecl remaineth) it is with a communica- 

 tion of the Breath, or Vapour of the object odor ate : But Harmony entring 

 eafiiy,. and Mingling not at all, and Coming with a manifeft Motion 1 

 doth by Cuftome of often Affecting the Spirits, and Putting them into one 

 kind of Poliure, alter not a little the Nature ot the Spirits, even when the 

 Objecl is removed. And therefore we lee tbuz Titnes and Atres,Qvtn in their 

 own nature, have in rhemlelves fome Affinity with the Affections h As 

 there be Merry Times, Doleftt'Ll Tunes, Solemn Tunes • Tunes inclining Mens 

 minds to Pity Warlike Tunes, &c. So as it is no Marvell, if they alter the 

 Spirits ; coniidering that T tines have a Precifpofmon to the Motion of the 

 Spirits in themfelves. But yet it hath been noted, that though this variety 

 of Tunes, doth difpofe the Spirits to variety ot l^fiions, conforme unto 

 them-, yet generally, Mufick feedet-^ tfoatcjitpofitioi) of the Spirits which it 

 findeth, • VVe fee alio that feverall Aires, anc Tunes, do pleate feverall Na- 

 tions, and Per fons, according to the Sympathy they have with their Spirits. 



jp£i^$iT* hath been v. ith fome dil gcrce inquired; £nd 



the Nullity. 

 And Enttty 

 ef Sounds. 



Experiments 

 in Confoi c 



smndf^ind j ^ ^° natn - tne $ a!ur e ofSotinfoj in fome forr,as far as concer 

 firft touching uexhMufick, But the Nature of Sounds ingenerall 5 hath been 

 fuperficially obferved, It is one of the fubtiliefl; Pciccsof Na- 

 ture, And betides, I praclile, as i do advife-.which is, after long 

 Inquiry of Things, Immerfein Matter, tointerpofe fome Sub- 

 ject, which is Immatcriate, or lefs Materiate- Such as this of 

 Sounds-. To the end, that the intellect may be Rectified, and be- 

 come not Partiall. 



115 j It is firft to be confidered, what Great Motions there are in Nature, which 

 pafs wirhout Sound, or Ncije. The //^w* turn about, in a molt rapide 

 Motion,without Noife to us perceived \ Though in fame Dreames they have 

 j been faid to make an excellent Mufick. So the Motions of the Comets, and 

 I Fiery Meteors, (as Stella Cadens,drc.)yedd no Noife. And if it be thought,that 

 j! it is the Greatnefs of diftancefrom us, whereby the Sound cannot be heard 

 I We fee that Lightnings, and Corufcations, which are near at hand, yeeld no 

 ! Sound neither. And yet in all thde,there is a Percufiion and Divilion of the 

 j Air. The Winds in the Upper Region (which move the Clouds abovef which 

 I wc call the Rack ) and are not perceived below) pafs without Noife. The 

 j lower Winds in a Plain, except they be ftrong,make no Noife % But amongft 

 i Trees,the Noije,oi fuch Winds will be perceived. And the Winds (general- 

 ly) when they make a Noife, do ever make it unequally, Rifing,and Falling, 

 and fometimes (when they are vehement) Trembling at the Height of their 

 Blaft. Rain, or Hail falling, (though vehemently) yeeldeth no Noife, in 

 palfing through the Air, till it fall upon the Ground, Water, Houfes,or the 

 like. Water in a River (though a fwift Stream)is not heard in the Channell 3 



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