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heaven_n	east_n	motion_n	west_n	1,864	5	9.5519	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47932	A discourse upon the passions in two parts / written originally in French, Englished by R.W.; Charactères des passions. English	La Chambre, Marin Cureau de, 1594-1669.; R. W.	1661 (1661)	Wing L131B; ESTC R30486	309,274	762

violent agitation all the functions of Sence and principally those of Judgment being not to be performed but when the Soul enjoys a great Tranquillity as Aristotle says Whence it also happens that Nature hath placed the brain so far from the principle of heat that its quiet might not be disturbed by the neighborhood of that active and turbulent quality as we shall more amply hereafter declare CHAP. III. Of the Motion of the Spirits and of the Humors in Anger AS Rivers which run into the Sea are sensible of those storms wherewith it is agitated The spirits in Anger have contrary motions those spirits which like Rivers take their source from the Soul and discharge themselves there also must needs suffer part of that great tempest which Anger raiseth therein And they must be shaken with the same violence and agitation which she resents in herself If it be therefore true that she is then moved with two contrary motions and that at the same time when Grief makes her retire Boldness raiseth her up and drives her forth it 's necessary that the spirits to whom she communicates all her commotions must be agitated after the same manner and that as she doth they must restrain and retreat themselves at the same instant when she raiseth and darts herself forth against ill And certainly did not Reason force the mind to confess this Truth the effects which Anger produces would sufficiently prove it For besides that a man often grows pale when he is carried away with this Passion that his voice is vehement and sharp and that commonly we see in his Face sadness mix and confound it self with fury which can proceed from nothing but this contrariety of motions it 's impossible to doubt it if we consider the different pulse which is proper for Anger and the consistence which the Heart and the Lungs have when it 's kindled in those parts for it hath this in particular That it makes the pulse higher and more elevated then large and extended And that it retires the Heart and Lungs in themselves although it then swells them and raiseth them up now this can be but from these two opposite motions we have spoken of as we shall more fully declare when we enquire into the causes of those effects But although this be most certain yet we must confess that it 's harder to conceive how such bodies as the spirits are can at the same time suffer motions which seem incompatible for although there are many examples in Nature which make it appear that a body may be moved in such a manner that Fish which swims against the course of the water are insensibly carried away with the force of the stream that a man may walk in a ship contrary to the course he shapes and that the heavens themselves are as they say carried towards the West by the Primum mobile whilst by their natural inclination they tend towards the East Yet this clears not the difficulty but leaves still a great difference betwixt these motions and those wherewith the spirits are agitated in this Passion for that there is but one motion in the former proper to the body moved the other is as a stranger and as the School says happens by accident but here these two motions which the spirits suffer are proper unto them it 's the same mover which produceth them it 's the same subject which receives them and it seems a contradiction that at the same time a thing should advance it self and go backwards that it should tend to two opposite places In a word that it should be and not be in the place where it is We must therefore fay that there are two ways whereby the spirits may receive these contrary motions How the spirits suffer contrary motions The first supposing them to have divers parts some of which are agitated after one manner and others after another just as it happens in the Streights where contrary Currents and Seas meet for as there are some waves which enter into one another some which justle and cause the beatings they give one another to boil exceedingly the same thing certainly is here done where one part of the Spirits which follows the motion of Grief and another which is carried away with that of Boldness and which meeting on the way causeth this turbulent and unequal agitation which is observable in this Passion the same way is like that which is performed in Boldness wherein the spirits stiffen themselves in themselves and yet forbear not to dart themselves forth For seeing the parts of a body may amongst themselves suffer a motion which may be different from that wherewith the whole body is agitated as it happens to the Arm when at the same time we stiffen and stretch it forth So it may also be that the spirits may retire in themselves and at the same time be violently driven into the exterior parts And truly as Grief makes its impression before Boldness because we must resent an injury before we will our revenge it 's certain that at that instant the spirits restrain themselves so that Boldness coming after and not driving Grief away it must raise the Spirits restrained as they are and without making them lose the disposition it finds them in drive them to those places where they are necessary Now although in little Anger 's it may happen that the Spirits will be moved onely after the latter manner yet commonly they are by both sorts at once and it must necessarily be The better to conceive this great storm which they raise in the veins we must fancy to our selves that they do not onely restrain themselves as we have said but that there are some which run and flie to the heart and others which issue out and impetuously cast themselves forth and that in this encounter which is thereby made they embroyl and confound themselves they justle and raise themselves up and so they make a current full of boilings and of foam it 's true that according as Grief or Boldness predominates in this Passion the ebbing and flowing of the spirits is stronger or weaker for when Grief is greater which is properly what we say is to be vexed there are more spirits which retire to the heart then there are which are darted forth On the contrary when Boldness is greater as when Anger is violent and turns even into Fury there are more spirits which dart themselves forth then retire and then although the shock which they give themselves cannot be so great and seems to be unable to cause this agitation which is when they are of equal force yet this hinders not that trouble and tempest to be therein formed with the same violence which the excess of this Passion requires forasmuch as if the shock is not then performed by the encounter of these opposite motions yet it 's made by the frequent arrival of the spirits which like impetuous floods precipitate themselves on