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r An Account of fome Books < 
T DTSCOURS PHYSIQUE DE LA 
ROLE, par-M. DE COR DEMO Y, k Paris in 12 • 
which is now a printing iviEnglifhzt Londm for Mr. fyhn Martin 
THis Author, after he had in a former difcourfe, (whereof 
anaccount was give n Numb. \ 7. p. 306; under the Title of 
l»e difcernement du Corps & del* ;f/#<?) propofed the wiy of Know- 
ing ons (elfe (hewing, that it confiftsonly in difcerning in our 
fe ves the Operations of the Soul, and thofeof the Body-, doth 
now proppfe the means of knowing others^ which is Speech. He 
cxplica£eth,what itis, and endeavors exadtly to diftingui(h ; what 
it borrows from the Soul, and what from tlie Body, 
In this difquifition, he reafons upon nothing but what he hath 
found inhimfelfe, and as if he had never yet been affufd, there 
were any other men befides himfelfe, heftays in the rery be- 
ginning upon this eonfideration, Whether it be neceffary, 
that all Bodies, which he fees to be like his* be united to fuch 
Souls as his? refolv'dnotto believe it, unlefs he have fuch evi- 
dent fignes of it, that he can doubt no longer thereof. He exa- 
mines, what themoft furprifing things are, that Bodies do, and 
as long as he can impute the caufe of it to the dtfpofition of their 
Organs, he thinks he may affure, they have 110 Soul: But 
after having found imthe fole frame and pofition of the parts 
q{ the Body, how to render a reafon of the noife, founds, dif- 
ference of voices^ and even of wrrds, pronounced by -Echo's and 
Tarrets i he finds himfelf at laft obliged to admit Souls in all fuch 
Bodys, as referable His, and to acknowledge it not poflibie, that 
they (hould thus fpeak topurpofe as they do, without being en- 
dowed with Reafon. 
Next,havingfound 5 that to Speak, is nothing but togivefigns 
of our thoughts, he takes notice of fome of thole figns Thefirfh 
he confiders, are the motions of the Face, and thofe founds^ 
which ordinarily accompany the different ftates of the Body 5 ob- 
fttvingj that naturally they are joyn'd to Paflxons* which thefoul 
teels 
