C 553 > 
adionor effed produced, will be of a mixed nature, and differing 
from that, which feveralof the parts confider’d as difiintt Bodies 
or Agents., tended to, or would have perform’d •, As when in a 
Ballance, by putting in a weight into one of the Scales, theoppo- 
fite Scale, 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 Adions, which Scholaftical men 
attribute to the confpiring of fubordinate Forms to affift the Spe- 
cific!: 3 are but the refultant actions of feveral Bodies, which being 
aflbciated together , are thereby reduced in many cafes to a<§ 
jointly, and mutually modifie each others addons 5 and that which 
they afcribe to the dominion of the Prefidwg Form, is to be impu- 
ted to the flrudure and connexion of the parts of the compound- 
ed Body. 
This the Author confirms and illuftrates by many very inftiu- 
dive Examples and Comparifons, taken from manual Arts and 
Pradifes, Phyficks, Chymiftry, &c. And applying his dodrine a- 
bout thzte fuhordinate Forms to inanimate Bodies, be fumsup the 
heads of- all,and, calls them into p diftind Propofitions,which are 5 
1 . The word Form is of an indeterminate fignification. 
2 . ’Tis not eafie, to decide th zNoblenefs of Forms. 
9 . In divers Bodies the Form is attributed upon the account of 
fame eminent Property or life ^ which if it be prefent and continue, 
though many other things fupervene, or chance to be wanting, 
thematterisneverthelefs look t upon, as retaining its Form, and 
is wont to be allow’d its ufuai denomination. 
4 . By reafon of the Conjundiojaor Connexion of the parts, 
that make up a whole (or, at lead; an s ggregat of Bodies, that for 
their connexion are looked upon as fuch) it will often happen, that 
feveral things will be perform’d by -the joint or concurrent Adion 
of thefe united or coherent parts.' 
5. We may yeFin a/tfwijw/e admit, that in fome Bodies there 
maybe fubordinate Forms. 
6 . The fupervening of a new Form is often but accidental to 
the Pre-exiflent Form, and f/i^/)does not at all deftroy its na- 
ture 9 butmodifie its operations. 
7. Befides the Specifick ad ions of a Body, that harbours fub- 
ordinate Forms, there may be divers others, wherein fome of the 
I ii Parts 
