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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36424	A voyage to the world of Cartesius written originally in French, and now translated into English.; Voyage du monde de Descartes. English	Daniel, Gabriel, 1649-1728.; Taylor, Thomas, 1669 or 70-1735.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1692 (1692)	Wing D201; ESTC R5098	166,321	301

believ'd a Soul separate from the Body had been capable of such an Accident M. Descartes who was aware of it and well understood the cause left me for a moment to wait on Aristotle's Embassadors I knew not what Intercourse they had till the old Gentleman's Information on our return to th' other World He told me Mr. Descartes declin'd entring all Dispute and Business with them only assuring them he had not the least Design of making any Inroad into Aristotle's Dominions but that he thought it a difficult piece of Work to effect a through Accommodation and that it would be proper for each to preserve their Liberty in Opinion as before without being restless and concern'd to bring over that of others to it notwithstanding to the end their Voyage might not be wholly ineffectual he promis'd to see that the Cartesians behav'd themselves with greater Respect and Esteem towards Aristotle upon condition Aristotle would restrain the Peripateticks from flying out with that out-rage against Cartesianism To come to my Spiritual Metamorphosis I knew not the reason of that neither till my return and it was this We must suppose that as long as our Soul is united with our Body the most part of its Ideas and Conceptions depend on the disposition of our Brain The diversity of that Disposition consists as say the Peripateticks in the difference of the Species Apparitions or Images of Objects contain'd in the Cavities of the Brain or imprinted on its Substance The new Philosophers more truly say That those kind of Pictures are nothing but the Traces and Footsteps stampt on the Brain by the ordinary Current of the Animal Spirits that flow in great Plenty as in little Rivers and wear themselves a kind of Channel to which they usually keep In what way soever that different Disposition causes the different Idea's and different Judgments of the Soul for it is an inscrutable Mystery it is certain it is done and that different Ideas suppose different Traces So that should a dissection be made of a Peripatetick and a Cartesian Brain with the help of good Microscopes for the discovery of those Prints that are exquisitely fine one should see a prodigious difference in the Complexion of those two Brains I never indeed question'd that Truth but I thought that dependence of the Soul lasted no longer than it was in the Body and that as soon as the Separation was perform'd it had no more Correspondence with it But I experimented the contrary and my Fellow-Travellers assur'd me that so long as the Body has its Organs sound and free let the Soul be ten thousand Worlds apart it will receive the same Impressions as if it resided in it And that if M. Descartes's Snush had not lax'd the sensitive Nerves I should have seen whilst I was in Descartes's World all the Occurrencies the Eyes of my Body were presented with I should have heard every noise that beat upon the Drum of my Ears And so of all the rest So astonishing an Effect as this makes no Impression on Philosophical Souls For if they be Peripateticks they presently explain it by the Sympathy betwixt the Soul and Body of the same individual and if they be Cartesians they expound it by the general Laws of the Soul and Bodies Union which is in cause that God on occasion of such and such Motions made in the Body produces such and such Thoughts or Perceptions in the Soul and say they one of these Laws is That whilst the Organs of the Body are capacitated for Imployment the Soul wherever she is receives the Impressions of Objects that affect them it being as easy a thing for God to advertise the Soul of that Impression when she is remote from the Body as when present proximity of Place being wholly insignificant in the thing since according to them the Motion of the Organs is not the real cause that produces Sensations but only the occasional cause that is that which offers an occasion to God Almighty of producing them in the Soul My Old Gentleman then as I was saying in our Return confess'd the Trick Father Mersennus and himself had agreed to play me They had given Instructions before they departed to the little Negro that was commission'd to guard my Corps at such an Hour in which they easily foresaw we should be arriv'd to M. Descartes's World to take Care so to determine the Animal Spirits in my Brain as they might no longer keep the beaten Tracks they had been us'd to for the exciting Peripatetick Spe●ies in my Mind but to make them glide in such a Current as was necessary and as he knew how for the implanting Cartesian Ideas in their Room which he perform'd with that Dexterity that whether it was by the Legerdemain of Sympathy or by vertue of the General Laws of Vnion of the Body and Soul my Notions were all in an instant turn'd topsie turvy And I that a Moment since could see nothing in that Immense Space in which I was began to perceive Matter there and to be convinc'd that Space Extension and Matter were all one and the same thing After which as often as M. Decsartes bade us to conceive how such and such Motions were effected in Matter I saw them more distinctly than your most clarify'd Cartesians do your Chamfer'd Parts of Matter wreath'd in shape of little Skrews by the Struggle they have to squeez betwixt the Balls of the Second Element or to constitute a little Vortex round the Loadstone and to cause that wonderful affinity that is found betwixt that Stone and the Poles of the Earth and with it and Iron It is plain that an Universal Revolution of Ideas like this cannot happen in the Soul without causing an extraordinary Commotion in its Substance no more than a general Alteration of Humors can occur in the Body without a Change of its Constitution I was therefore infinitely surpriz'd at so prodigious a Change being wholly unable to give any probable Guess at its Cause but could not help attributing it to some Secret in M. Descartes's Philosophy who returning quickly after address'd me in a more Familiar Air than at my first Reception Well what shall we begin to fall to work upon our World I see you are at present capable and worthy of reaping that Satisfaction Monsieur said I I know not where I am nor what I ought to think of my self But certainly nothing can more effectually dispose me to a Belief that you are capable of becoming the Creator of a World than that Power you manifest over Spirits Yes Monsieur I acknowledg Space Matter and Extension to be the self-same Thing I see plainly in that Space Materials for the Building a New World and if you once accomplish so vast and prodigious a Work from this Time forward I renounce my Body to live here with you for ever and ever to the End of the World nothing seeming comparable to the Advantage of living with the most