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CRAY vy. 
Of the POWERandUS E of Mixture. 
ZAK VING enumerated the general Canfés, we thall; 
» laftly, enquire into the Power and Use of Mixture 5 
or, into what it can.Do and Teach. And I thall In- 
"% {tance in fix particulars. Firif, to Renderall Bodies 
’ Sociable, whatfoever they be. Secondly, To Make 
Artificial Bodies in Imitation of thofe of Natwresown 
) produation. Thirdly, to make or imitate the fenfible 
Qualities of Bodies; as Smells, and Tats. Fourthly, 
To make, or imitatetheir Faculties. Fifthly, Itisa Key, to difcover 
the Nature of Bodies. Sixthly, To difcover their Uf, and the Manner 
of their Medicinal Operation. 
INSTANCE L 

IR ST, To render all Bodies Socéable or Mingleable: as Water 
with Oyl, Salt with Spirit, and the like. For Natural and Arti- ~ 
frial Mixture, are the fame 5 as we have before proved. If therefore Ch.3.§. 183 
"Nature can do it, as we fee in the Generation of Bodies fhe doth, ‘tis 
likewife in the Power of Art to do it. 
2. §. And for the doing of it;+two general Rules refult from the 
Premiffes, fe. The Application of Cafes, and the Choice of Materials. 
As for the Canjes, they are fuch as] have now inftanc’din. Andfor Cd. 4. 
the Application of them, I thall give thefe two Rules. 
3. §. Firft, That we tread in Natures fteps as near as we can 5 not 
only in the Application of fuch a Canfe, as may be moft proper forfucha 
Mixtures but alfo in allowing it fiufficient time forits effect. For fowe fee 
Nature her felf, for lier more perfec? Mixtures ; ufually doth. She 
maketh not a Flower, or an Apple, a Hor/t, or a Man, ina moment 5 
butallthings by degreess and for her more perfect and eleborate Mix- 
tures, for the moft part, fhe requireth sore time. Becaufe all fach 
‘Mixtures ave made and carri’d on per minima; and therefore require @ 
greater time for the compleating of them. 
4. §. A fecord Rule is, Not only to make a due Application of 
the Caufés; but fometimes to Accumulate them. By which means, we 
may not only, imitate Nature, but in fome cafes go beyond her.. For 
as by adding a Graft or Budto the Stock, wemay produce Fruit fooner, 
and fometimes better, than Nature by the Stock alone would do: So 
here, by accumulating the Canfés of Mixture, that is, by joyning two, 
three, ox more togethers or by applying more in fome Cafes, where Na- 
ture applyeth fewer; wemay be able to make, if not a more perfect, 
yet afar more Speedy Mixture, than Nature doth. As by joyning Conm- 
prelfiow, Heat, and violent Agitation , and fo continuing them all to- 
gether, by fome means contrived for the puspofe, for the fpace of a 
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