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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35987	Two treatises in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule is looked into in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing D1448; ESTC R9240	548,974	508

and temper him The streames of water as we haue said must runne through the whole fabrike of this triformed plant and because it is not a simple water but warme in a good degree and as it were a middle substance betwixt water and ayre by reason of the ardent volatile spiritt that is with it it is of a fitt nature to swell as ayre doth and yet withall to resist violence in a conuenient degree as water doth Therefore if from its source nature sendeth aboundance into any one part that part must swell and grow thicker and shorter and so must be contracted that way which nature hath ordered it Whence we perceiue a meanes by which nature may draw any part of the outward fabrike which way soeuer she is pleased by sett instruments for such an effect But when there is no motion or but litle in these pipes the standing streame that is in a very litle though long channell must needes be troubled in its whole body if any one part of it be pressed vpon so as to receiue thereby any impression and therefore whatsoeuer is done vpon it though att the very furthest end of it maketh a commotion and sendeth an impression vp to its very source Which appearing by our former discourse to be the origine of particular and occasionall motions it is obuious to conceiue how it is apt to be moued and wrought by such an impression to sett on foote the beginning of any motion which by natures prouidence is conuenient for the plant when such an impression is made vpon it And thus you see this plant hath the vertue both of sense or feeling that is of being moued and affected by externe obiects lightly striking vpon it as also of mouing it selfe to or from such an obiect according as nature shall haue ordained Which in summe is that this plant is a sensitiue creature composed of three sources the heart the braine and the liuer whose offspringes are the arteries the nerues and the veines which are filled with vitall spirits with animal spirits and with blood and by these the animal is heated nourished and made partaker of sense and motion Now referring the particular motions of liuing creatures to an other time we may obserue that both kindes of them as well vegetables as animals do agree in the nature of sustaining themselues in the three common actions of generation nutrition and augmentation which are the beginning the progresse and the conseruing of life Vnto which three we may adde the not so much action as passion of death and of sicknesse or decay which is the way to death THE FOVRE AND TWENTIETH CHAPTER A more particular suruay of the generation of Animals in which is discouered what part of the animal is first generated TO beginne then with examining how liuing creatures are ingendered our maine question shall be whether they be framed entirely att once or successiuely one part after an other And if this later way which part first Vpon the discussion of which all that concerneth generation will be explicated as much as concerneth our purpose in hand To deduce this from its origine we may remember how our Masters tell vs that when any liuing creature is passed the heate of its augmentation or growing the superfluous nourishment settleth it selfe in some appoynted place of the body to serue for the production of some other Now it is euident that this superfluity cometh from all partes of the body and may be said to containe in it after some sort the perfection of the whole liuing creature Be it how it will it is manifest that the liuing creature is made of this superfluous moysture of the parent which according to the opinion of some being compounded of seuerall partes deriued from the seuerall limbes of the parent those partes when they come to be fermented in conuenient heate and moysture do take their posture and situation according to the posture and disposition of partes that the liuing creature had from whence they issued and then they growing dayly greater and solider the effects of moysture and of heate do att the length become such a creature as that was from whence they had their origine Which an accident that I remember seemeth much to confirme It was of a catt that had its tayle cutt of when it was very yong which catt happening afterwardes to haue yong ones halfe the kittlinges proued without tayles and the other halfe had them in an ordinary manner as if nature could supply but on the partners side not on both And an other particular that I saw when I was att Argiers maketh to this purpose which was of a woman that hauing two thumbes vpon the left hand foure daugthers that she had did all resemble her in the same accident and so did a litle child a girle of her eldest daugthers but none of her sonnes Whiles I was there I had a particular curiosity to see them all and though it be not easily permitted vnto Christians to speake familiarly with Mahometan women yet the condition I was in there and the ciuility of the Bassha gaue me the opportunity of full view and discourse with them and the old woman told me that her mother and Grandmother had beene in the same manner But for them it resteth vpon her creditt the others I saw my self But the opinion which these accidents seeme to support though att the first view it seemeth smoothly to satisfy our inquiry and fairely to compasse the making of a liuing creature yet looking further into it we shall find it fall exceeding short of its promising and meete with such difficulties as it can not ouercome For first lett vs cast about how this compound of seuerall partes that serueth for the generation of a new liuing creature can be gathered from euery part and member of the parent so to carry with it in litle the complete nature of it The meaning hereof must be that this superfluous aliment eyther passeth through all and euery litle part and particle of the parents body and in its passage receiueth something from them or else that it receiueth only from all similar and great partes The former seemeth impossible for how can one imagine that such iuice should circulate the whole body of an animall and visit euery atome of it and retire to the reserue where it is kept for generatiō and no part of it remaine absolutely hehind sticking to the flesh or bones that it bedeaweth but that still some part returneth backe from euery part of the animall Besides consider how those partes that are most remote from the channels which conuey this iuice when they are fuller of nourishment then they neede the iuice which ouerfloweth from them cometh to the next part and settling there and seruing it for its due nourishment driueth backe into the channell that which was betwixt the channell and it selfe so that here there is no returne att all from some of the remote pattes

noysome smell that would almost poysone an other man And thus if in the breath of the wolfe or in the steame coming from his body be any quality offensiue to the lambe as it may very well be where there is so great a contrariety of natures it is not strange that at the first sight and approach of him he should be distempered and fly from him as one fighting cocke will do from an other that hath eaten garlike and the same happeneth between the weasell and the toade the lyon and the cocke the toade and the spider and seuerall other creatures of whom like enmities are reported All which are caused in them not by secret instincts and antipathies and sympathies whereof we can giue no account with the bare sound of which wordes most men do pay themselues without examining what they meane but by downe right materiall qualities that are of contrary natures as fire and water are and are eyther begotten in them in their originall constitution or are implanted in them afterwardes by their continuall foode which nourishing them changeth thier constitution to its cōplexion And I am persuaded this would goe so farre that if one man were nourished continually with such meate and greedily affected it which an other had auersion from there would naturally follow much dislike betweene them vnlesse some superiour regard should master this auersion of the sense And I remember to haue seene two notable examples of it the one in Spaine of a Gentleman that had a horrour to garlike who though he was very subiect to the impressions of beauty could neuer weane himselfe from an auersion he had settled him to a very handsome woman that vsed to eate much garlike though to winne him she forebore the vse of that meate which to her was the most sauory of all others And the like I knew in Englād betweene two whereof the one did extremely loue cheese and the other as much hated it and would fall into a strange agony and be reduced one would thinke to the point of death if by inaduertence or others tryall of him he had swallowed neuer so litle of what the other would haue quitted all meates else to liue vpon And not only such auersions as spring from differences of complexions in the constitutions of seuerall animals do cause these effects of feare and of trembling and of flying from those that do make such impressions but euen the seeing them angry and in fury doth the like for such passions do alter the spirits and they issuing from the body of the animal in passion can not choose but be receiued by an other in a different manner then if they were of an other temper Then if the one kind be agreeable to their nature the other must needes be displeasing And this may be the reason why bees neuer sting such as are of a milde and gentle disposition and will neuer agree with others that are of a froward and angry nature And the same one may obserue among dogges and peraduenture a mans fantasy may be raised to such a height of fury that the fiercest beastes may be affraide to looke vpon him and can not endure that those mastering spirits which streame out of the mans eyes should come into his so much they distemper his fantasy and therefore he will turne away from the man and auoyde him Which discourse may be cōfirmed by sundry examples of lyons and beares that haue runne from angry and confident men and the like Since then a man that in his naturall hew giueth no distast doth so much affright fiercest beastes when he putteth on his threatning lookes it is no wonder that beastes of a milder and softer nature should haue feare of him settled in them when they neuer saw him otherwise then angry and working mischiefe to them And since their brood do receiue from their parents a nature easily moued vnto feare or anger by the sight of what moued them it is not strange that at the first sight they should tremble or swell according as the inward motion of the spirits affordeth Now if this hath rendered the birdes in the wilde Islandes affraide of men who otherwise would be indifferent to them it is no maruayle to see more violent effects in the lambes auersion from the wolfe or in the larkes from the hobbey since they peraduenture haue ouer and aboue the hurt they vse to do them a di●formity in their constitutions and therefore though a larke will flye as well from a man as from a hobbey yet because there is one cause more for his dislike against the hobbey then against the man namely the di●formity of their constitutions he will flye into the mans hand to auoyde the hawkes talons Vnto some of these causes all antipathies may be reduced and the like reason may be giuen for the sympathies we see betweene some creatures The litle corporeities which issue from the one haue such a conformity with the temper of the other that it is thereby moued to ioyne it selfe vnto the body from whence they flow and affecteth vnion with it in that way as it receiueth the impression If the smell do please it the beast will alwayes be smelling at it if the tast nothing shall hinder it from feeding vpon it when it can reach it The fishermen vpon the banke ouer against newfound land do report that there flocketh about them a kind of bird so greedy of the fishes liuers which they take there as that to come at them and feede vpon them they will suffer the men to take them in their handes and will not fly away as long as any of their desired meate is in their eye whence the French men that fish there do call them Happe foyes The like power a certaine worme hath with nigthingales And thus you see how they are strong impressions vpon sense and not any discourse of reason that do gouerne beastes in their actions for if their auoyding men did proceed from any sagacity in their nature surely they would exercise it when they see that for a bitte of meate they incurre their destruction and yet neyther the examples of their fellowes killed before their eyes in the same pursuite nor the blowes which themselues do seele can serue them for warning where the sense is so strongly affected but as soone as the blow that remoued them is passed if it misle killing or laming them and they be gotten on wing againe they will returne to their prey as eagerly and as confidently as if nothing were there to hinder them This then being the true reason of all sympathy and antipathy we can not admitt that any beastes should loue or hate one on other for any other cause then some of those we haue touched All which are reduced to locall motion and to materiall application of bodies of one nature to bodies of an other and are as well transmitted to their yong ones as begotten in themselues and as the