NATVRALL 
HISTORIE. 
X. Century. 
He Pbilofophie of 'Pythagoras , ( which Experiments 
was full of Superftition, ) did fttft j loSngthe 
plantaMonflrout Imagination ; Which 
afterwards was, by the Schools of I immtemte 
• 17.", tut c ^r»H 
Plato , and Others, Watered and Nou- 
rifiied. It was, that the wa- 
One Entire, Perfett, Lining Creature ; 
Info much as Appolonius of Tyana, a 
Pythagorean Prophet, affirmed, that the Ebbing and Flowing 1 
ofthe&^, was the Respiration of the World, drawing ini ffTz- 
as Breath, and putting it forth againe, They went on, and 
inferred j That if the fFor/J were a Lining Creature , it had a 
Sow/tf, and Spirit ; Which alfo they held, calling it Spiritus 
Mymdi ; The Spirit or Soule of ihcWorld : By Which they did 
1 not intend j ( for they did admit of a Deity befides ,) But 
1 only 
Values find 
thefoacol/* * 
rnugsuation. 
