adlonor effed produced, willbeof a^/^^^j/nature, and differing 
from that> which feveralof the parts confider'd as difiwB Bod'm 
or AgentS;, tended to, or would have performed As when in a 
Ballancej by putting in a weight into one of the Scales, the oppo- 
fiteScale, though as a heavy body, it will naturally tend down- 
wards, yet by virtue of the fabrick of the /nftrument is made to 
mount upwards. So that thofe Anions, which Scholaftical men 
attribute to the confpiring of fubordinate Forms to aflift the Spe- 
cif ck, are but therefultant acSioos offeveral Bodies, which being 
altbciated together , are thereby reduced in many cafes to z£t 
jointly^ and mutually modifie each others adlions 5 and that, which 
they afcribe to the dominion af th^Frefiding Form, is to be impu- 
ted to the ftru(5lureand connexion of the parts of the compound- 
ed Body. 
This the Author confirms and illuftrates by many veryinftiu- 
dive Examples and Comparifons, taken from manual Arts and 
Pradifes, Phyficks, Chymiftry, &c. And applying his dodrioe a- 
bout thefe Subordinate Forms to inanimate Bodies, he fums up the 
heads of all^andcafls them into 9 diftinci Propofitions^which are \ 
1 . The v/ord Form is of an indeterminate fignification, 
2. 'Tis not eafie, to decide ih^Nohlenejs of Forms. 
. 9. In divers Bodies the Form is attributed upon the account of 
fome eminent JPr^/^r/y or Ufe-^ which if itbeprefent and continue^ 
though many other things fupervene, or chance to be wanting, 
the matter is neverthelefs lookt upon, as retaining its Form;> and 
is wont to be allowed its ufual denomination. 
4, By reafon of the Conjundioa^r Connexion of the fms^ 
that make up a whole (or, at kaft an Aggregat of Bodies, thatfor 
their connexion are looked upon as fuch) it will often. happen,than 
feveral things will be performed by the joint or concurrent Adion 
of thefe united or coherent parts. 
5. We may yet^in 2.fomd JenJe admif, th^^n fome Bodies there 
may be fubordinate Forms. ^ 
6, The fupervening of a new Form is often^but accidental to 
the Pre-exiftent Form , and (theri)dQts not at all deftroy its na^ 
ture^ but modifie its operations 
7. Befides the Sfecifick actions of a Body, that harbours [ub- 
crdimte Forms, there may be divers others, wherein fome of the 
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