Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	motion_n	nerve_n	1,652	5	10.7938	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44220	Magnetismus magnus, or, Metaphysical and divine contemplations on the magnet, or loadstone written by Sir Matthew Hale.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1695 (1695)	Wing H250; ESTC R8784	65,385	172

Rod A B should convey a Flux of Magnetical Vigour entirely from A to B and at the same time the same Rod and every part thereof should send a Radius from B to A extreamly contrary to the other and yet neither to retund or abate the Energy of the other 5 thly That every smallest Particle of this Magnet every little Dust thereof should have the very same Conformation that the entire Magnet had every little Particle having his Poles his Equator his Direction Attraction Inclination c. perfectly Analogal to the great Magnet whose Dust it is 6 thly That all these Various Motions should be thus Regularly and Uniformly exerted by its own Strength and Vigour without the assistance of any Organ that we can by any means perceive An Animal hath a Local Motion and Conversion of it self to this or that posture but then it hath Spirits and Nerves and Tendons and Muscles by which it begins its Motion and Legs and Feet and other Organs by which it compleats these Motions but the Magnet converts its self to its Polar Position without any of these Engines to perform them An Animal attracts his Nourishment and unites it to it self by its Natural Heat digesting it by its Veins and Arteries again perfecting and distributing it and hath accordingly Vessels fitted for Attraction Digestion and Distribution as Mouth Ventricle Liver Heart c. but the Attraction and Distribution of Magnetical Influxes is performed without any so much as Visibe Pore for their Reception nay the more solid and unporous it is the better and stronger it performs its Motion 7 thly That all this is performed Regularly Uniformly Constantly without any Deviation in the Magnet it self unless it be by an accidental Interposition of some other Magnetical Body that gives it a Variation The same Magnet performs its motion in the same manner in a Tract of 40 50 nay 100 Years without any sensible Change I have had by me a Magnet above 30 Years that a former Owner had above 50 Years before that that is as lively regular and vigorous in his motions as when I or he became first Owner of it 8 thly That a Magnet wherein there is no pret●nsion of a Life of Sense nay not a Life of Vegetation should have a kind of judiciary discrimination between that which is hurtfull and mischievous to his Magnetical Nature and what is beneficial and congruous to it and by a connatural Appetite should unite it self to the latter and fly from and chace away the former that the similar Pole of one Magnet should chace away the similar Pole of another Magnet and if it be too strong should flye from it and that the dissimilar Pole of one Magnet should reach after and unite it self to the dissimilar Pole of another Magnet and that with so vigorous a Prosecution that it should lay aside and suspend for the present its own natural Verticity and all because by this Conjunction and Union it receives a Fortification and cherishing of its Magnetical Vigour in this congruous Position and all this performed constantly unerringly and uniformly and that notwithstanding the interposition of another gross and unporous Body that it should thus discern a polus amicus and a polus inimicus without any Eyes to see the one or the other without any Sense of Smelling to distinguish the Fracedo or Eyre of one from another without any Nerves to give a tractile discrimination of one from another These and many more Instances of a like Nature as they discover a strange and wonderfull Combination of Motions in the Magnet so they do much more advance the wonderfulness of that unseen vis or virtus residing in the Magnet by which they are exerted but above all doe give us admirable Instances of that wonderfull Power and Wisdom of that great Author and Lord of Nature that should so frame and implant one Simple invisible and I may not amiss say incorporeal Principle of all these strange and various Motions that simply and from it self and its own Fabrick and Vigour performs them even without the help of Organs to assist it The Skill and Art of Men hath arrived to a great Advance in contriving and making curious Mechanical Engines with great variety and regularity of Motions as is specially observable in Water-Engines in Watches and Clocks especially in that famed Clock of Strasburgh wherein there are great varieties of Motions But all these Mechanisms are still by various Modifications Appositions and Applications of Particles of Matter this Wheel is fitted to that Wheel and this to another and the variety and constancy of the Motions ariseth still from the due Frame and Position of material Organs But the Mechanism that is used by the great Master of Nature both in things animate and inanimate and particularly in this of the Magnet is the admirable Fabrick and Modification of that internal insensible immaterial Power or active Principle it self it is the curious various admirable Modification Disposition and Ordination of the primitive Vigour and Power that is implanted in the automata of Nature that gives and directs their Motions It is true the Mechanism of Animals yea and Vegetables also is most admirable and exceeds the imitation of any humane Artist as might easily be evidenced by an Induction of Particulars He that reads Galen de Vsu Partium will find admirable Instances thereof in all even the most inconsiderable Parts of the Humane Structure But even this Mechanism of the Parts of Men or Animals is not to be compared to the admirable Mechanism if I may so call it of Essential Powers and Faculties First They are of several kinds in some Natures and particularly this of the Magnet there is an admirable disposition of essential primitive self-moving Powers and of admirable variety when yet as before I have observed there appears no disposition or accommodation of Organs for the exerting of those Powers but the Magnetical Vertue though it is beholding to the Magnet for its Habitation yet it useth it only as a Lodging or as a Shop or Laboratory wherein to work but exerts its Motions primitively and immediately by its own intrinsick essential Power and Energy Secondly In those Beings that are endued with Organs fitted and accommodated to their Operations as Men Animals Vegetables yet herein is apparent the great Pre-eminence of that internal essential Vigour whereof I speak and the high demonstration of the admirable Composure and Modification thereof and consequently the wonderful Wisdom and Power of him that first moulded and framed it namely 1. That it is prior in operation to the Completion yea to the very inception of any organical Parts of the Body That little punctum saliens in conceptu begins the Dance of the Sentient Life when it had no other Organ but a thin Film to keep it together and that of its own spinning also Again 2. Because the very Organization of the Parts of Animals and Vegetables is the immediate