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A34555 A philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conformable to the Cartesian principles Englished out of French.; Discours physique de la parole. English Cordemoy, Géraud de, d. 1684. 1668 (1668) Wing C6282; ESTC R2281 53,423 154

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Spirit to his Authority who proposeth them to us and so great convictions of our unableness to comprehend all what is that we have cause to take all what comes to us from thence for infallible Truth in a word for Notions which we hold from Grace and from which as well as from those which we hold from Nature we may deduce all the Conclusions that may serve to regulate our Belief and the Conduct of our Life so that we are guilty when by inconsideration or obstinacy we deviate from those Rules But without insisting on the consideration of all the great Truths that might be collected from this whole Discourse I think it will become me to conclude after I have consider'd all the several wayes whereby Thoughts may be communicated which is properly what we call Speaking and which I had proposed to my self to examine FINIS Books Printed for and sold by John Martyn at the Bell a little without Temple-bar THe History of the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge by Tho. Sprat in quarto Philosophical Transactions giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World for Anno 1665. 1666. 1667. 1668. Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England by Tho. Sprat In duodecimo An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language by John Wilkins D. D. Dean of Ripon and Fellow of the Royal Society In folio Abrahami Couleij Angli Poemata Latina in quibus continenter sex libri Plantarum viz. duo Herbarum duo Florum duo Sylvarum unus Miscellaneorum In octavo Physical Reflections upon a Letter written by Monsieur Denis concerning a new way of curing sundry diseases by transfusion of blood In quarto Englands Wants or several Proposals probably Beneficial for England In quarto Euclidis Elementa Geometrica Novo ordine ac Methodo fere demonstrata In duodecimo Experimental Philosophy in 3 Books with Observations about Cole-mines by Dr. Henry Power In quarto Cerebri Anatome cui accessit Nervorum descriptio usus Studio Dr. Tho. Willis In octavo Diatribae duae Medico-philosophicae quorum prior agit de fermentatione sive de Motu intestino particularum in quovis corpore Altera de Febribus hic accessit dissertatio Epistolica de urinis Studio Dr. Tho. Willis In duodecimo Micrographia or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute bodies made by Magnifying-glasses with Observations and Inquiries thereupon by R. Hook Fellow of the Royal Society In folio The Sermons of Bishop Brownrig In 2 Voll folio Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta Interpretum juxta Exemplar Vaticanum Romae Editum In octavo Graecae Linguae Historia sive oratio de ejusdem linguae origine progressis atque incremento a Gulielmo Burton Londonensi In octavo Lexicon Manuale Graeco-Latinum Latino-Graecum Auth. Cornel. Schrevelio In octavo Enter into thy Closet or a Method and Order for private devotion together with particular perswasives thereunto and helps therein with an Appendix concerning the frequent and holy use of the Lords Supper In duodecimo Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality with reference to the Government Religion Trade Growth Air Diseases and the several Changes of the said City by Capt. John Graunt Fellow of the Royal Society In octavo Kalendarium Hortense or the Gardiners Almanack directing what he is to do Monthly throughout the year and what Fruits and Flowers are in prime By John Evelyn Esquire Fellow of the Royal Society In octavo A Summary of Devotions compiled and used by Dr. Will. Laud sometime Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury The Considerator considered or a brief view of certain Considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta the Prolegomena and Appendix thereof by Br. Walton late Bishop of Chester In octavo Claudius Mauger's French Grammar enriched with an exact Pronunciation and many new Dialogues containing an account of Englands Triumph with the State of France Ecclesiastical Civil and Military with Instructions for Travellers into France Where also you may have choice of new Latin and French Books FINIS
but yet that one of them being furnisht by Nature the defects of the other may be supply'd by Art And having remarked that that is not reciprocal I declare as far as I may in a Discourse where I am to explain but the Principles whence those defects proceed and by what they may be corrected and I do even examine without stepping into the Ethicks why an Orator ought to be a good man and how much Lying may impair the force or the grace of his action 7. Lastly having considered sufficiently how much Eloquence depends from the Temperament and how it may be corrected or perfected by exercise I examine Whether it is to be met with among Spirits not united to Bodies Which obliges me to enquire into the manner after which they may manifest their thoughts to one another and it makes me discover that even our Spirits would enjoy a more easie communication among themselves if the strict Vnion they have with the Body did not indispensably oblige them to make use of Signes The same raciocination teaches me also that the difficulty we meet with in entertainments is not to conceive the thoughts of those that speak to us but to unwrap it from the Signes they use to express it in which often do not sute with it Whence I conclude that the Thought of one Spirit is alwayes clear to another from the very instant he can perceive it And this truth which I discuss as far as I am capable serves me to resolve those difficulties which others have thought unsurmountable but by submission to Faith I well know 't is Faith that must teach us whether sundry things have a being indeed but there is not alwayes need of its aid to conceive them It belongs to it for example to tell us whether there be other Spirits more enlightned that serve to direct ours but when once it hath declared to us that truth me thinks our reason can attain to it And I esteem that reflecting a little on what the thred of my subject hath obliged me to write of it in this Tract we shall find it more easie to conceive how pure Spirits can inspire us with their sentiments than to conceive how one Man can inspire his thoughts to another I might have proceeded further in this Inquiry but having proposed to my self only to examine what serves to Speech I thought I was to make an end after I had consider'd the sundry wayes by which Thoughts may be communicated seeing that that is properly what we call To speak I could wish that the discourse I have made of it might prove as pleasant to others as the reflexions it hath obliged me to make have been to me I avow they have been all the divertisement I have enjoyed during the last Vacations and as it is at least in that time permitted to comply with our inclinations the pleasure I have found in it sollicits me strongly to spend in the same manner all the other hours wherein I may be permitted to divert my self To conclude this Argument is so pleasant and so fertile that one needs but to propose it and it will beget a thousand pleasing thoughts And I doubt not but all those that excell me in genius will find by occasion of this Discourse a thousand pretty things which I have omitted so that without boasting of my Book I may affirm that the more wit a man hath the more pleasure he will find to read it A DISCOURSE OF SPEECH AMongst the Bodies I see in the World I perceive some that are in all things like mine and I confess I have a great inclination to believe that they are united to Souls as mine is But when I come to consider that my Body hath so many operations distinct from those of my Soul and that nothing of what maketh it subsist depends at all from Her I think I have at least ground to doubt that those Bodies are united to Souls until I have examin'd all their actions And I do even see that by the maximes of good sense I shall be obliged to believe that they have no Soul if they do only such things whereof I have found in my self that the Body alone may be the cause Thus if I see that the Objects make different impressions on them by the Eyes Ears Nose or Touch and if I see them eat sleep wake feed breath walk and dye nothing of all that ough● to make me believe that there is any other thing in them but a certain disposition of organs and parts which indeed is admirable but yet so dependent from the course and order of the other matter that I have acknowledged that to be the only cause in me of Nutrition Sleep Respiration and of the power which objects have to move the Brain so many surprising wayes 'T is true I have observ'd that cer●●in Thoughts alwayes accompani'd in me most of the motions of my Organs but yet 't is true also that by the exactest preciseness with which I have distinguish't what was in all my operations on the account of the Body and what on the score of the Soul I have found manifestly that if I had nothing but the Body I might have all what appears to me in the other Bodies which resemble mine It behoves me therefore to observe those Bodies neerer and to examine whether I may not perceive by any of their Actions that they are ruled by Souls I see that ordinarily they are carried to places where the Air seems most proper to entertain by respiration a due temper in the Bloud I see that they withdraw likewise from places where the Cold might too much retard the motion and from those where the Heat might render it too quick I see that they often flye with vehemence from the encounter of many other Bodies that appear to me of a Shape and Motion capable to destroy them and I see also that they approach those which may be beneficial to them And all these actions appear to me to be done with a discerning such as I find in me when I do the same actions Mean time when I reflect that I have found by other Contemplations that the sole Disposition of the Organs is the cause of all those operations in me I fear I affirm too much if I attribute the different motions of the Bodies that surround me to another cause than to the agreement there is between their Brain and the Objects and then as long as I do not see them do but what is for their good as to eat to drink to seek after coolness or warmth and whatever may maintain them in a state sutable to their nature I am not to believe there is any other thing in them but the Organs which may suffice for that But me-thinks I see them often do things that relate not at all to themselves nor their preservation I see some of them that meet with other Bodies the encounter whereof must in all appearance