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96 The Nature of &Maixture. Le&. I 
of a Watch, were put into a Clock; or that there were no other 
eae wherewith sc build an Hoxfé, then for a Tent ora Ship, For 
why fhould Nature, the great Artificer by which al] perfec Works are 
made, be feigned to cram and ram all things into one, which we our 
felves look upon as abfurd > ae . 
6. §. Secondly, The Mixture of Principles is diverfifi'd, as by Con- 
jugation, fo alfo by Proportion. That is, by the divers Quantities, of 
the feveral Principles or Parts mixed together. As if the Quantity of 
one, were as five to ten; ofa fecond, as five to fifteen; of a third, as 
five to twenty, &e. Or if that of one, be as jive to fixs of a fecond, 
as fix to fevens ofathird, as Jeven to eight. By which, and by other 
Proportions, Mixture may be varied innumerable wa S. 
7. §- Again, As Mixture is varied with refpect to the Bodies Mix- 
ed 5 fo likewife in refpeét of the Mixture it {elf} which I call the Loca- 
tion of Principles, or the Modes of their Conjunition. Which may be 
various, as well as their Conjugation and Proportion. Yet are they all 
reduceable unto #mo general Modes : all Bodies, and therefore all Prin. 
‘ ciples, being mixed either by Mediation, or by Conta. 
8. § Now all Contact, whether of Compounds, or of Atontes, can 
be no other way, than fuch as is anfwerable to their Figures. Where- 
of, therefore, we can conceive but three general ways, viz, 
Firft, By Contrad ina Point, or {ome fizaller part: as when two A- 
tomes meet, which are globular or otherwife sibbofe. Secondly, By 
Conta in a Plain : asin the conjun@ion of the fides of Triangular or 
Quadrangular Atomes, or otherwife flat. Thirdly, By Contact in a 
Concave : as when one Atome is admitted into the Concave or hole of 
another 5 as a Spigot isintoa Foflet. The Sitft may be called, Appofi- 
tion 5 the fecond, Application; the third, Reception or Tntrufion, — ~ 
9. $. Inthe two laff ways, Atomes may be joyned by Mediation 5 
but beft ofall the Jeff. As when the two extreanas of one Atome are re- 
ceived into the Concaves or the holes of two others, 
To. §. And thefe are all the general ways,whereby we can conceive 
Bodies to be Mixed together ; Jé.by their various Conjugation, Propor- 
tion and Location. So that the Compofition of Atomes, in Bodies ; is 
like that of Letters, in Words, What a Thunderclap would fuch a - 
Word be, wherein all the four and twenty Letters were pack’d up ? 
One therefore is compounded of more, another of fewer : this of fome, 
and that of others: and both the Conjugation, Proportion, and Locati. 
on of Letters is varied in every Word: whereby, we have many thou- 
fands of differing Words, without any alteration at all, in the Letters 
themfelves ; and might have ten times as many more, In like manner, 
therefore, or in the felf fame analogous way, as the.Letters of the Al- 
phabet, are the Principles of Words 5 fo Principles, are the Alphabet of 
Things. 
I iS §. What we have faid of Principles 5 and of Mixture as confe- 
quent thereupon; may be a foundation for an intelligible account, of 
the Nature and Cane of moft of the Iatrin fick Properties,and Qualities 
of Bodies: as of Gravity, Levity, Fixity, Fluidit » Angularity, Round- 
uefs, Heat, Cald, Blacknefs, Whitenefs, Sowernefs, Sweetnefi, Fragran- 
©), Fetidnefi, and very many more. I fay an intelligible account 5 fe. 
fuch as is grounded upon the Notions of Senfe, and made out Me- 
chanically. But the exemplification hereof, being too large a field 
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