and composure as flesh veins nerves arteries and bones or dissimilar made up of other particles of a different nature such are the Brain Heart Liver Lungs Kidneys Spleen c. and all Muscles for in these there is a mixture of flesh Veins Arteries Blood and spirits or thin agile particles according as the office of every member requires The Soul as it resides in the body for in that state alone it shall be considered here exercises divers faculties as Vegetation whereby the body lives is nourished and augmented and the species propagated by generation to accomplish which the meat and drink we receive being masticated and reduced into small parts in the mouth is conveyed downe into the stomach where a certain sharp and hot humor piercing into it reduces it into smaller parts and makes it slippery so that it may easily slide into the small whitish veines called from their colour Lacteal these lacteal veins intercepting the purest and juicyest part of it convey it into the hollow vein in which passage it receives much transmutation the excrementitious and lesse useful parts by vertue of certain glandulous substances which make an attrition upon it and sever the purest part from the lesse pure are conveyed to their proper receptacles For that which we call Choler is conveyed into a little bag called the Gall hanging at the Liver Urine is conveyed by the Kidneyes to the Bladder the grosser excremements slip through the entrals or Guts That which passeth through the veins staies not till it arrive at the heart where it receives a more perfect concoction and purifying and from the heart part of it is carried from the right Ventricle of the heart through a vein called the arterial vain to the Lungs whence it returnes through the venal Artery into the left Ventricle of the heart thence with the rest of the blood for so it is by this time it flowes into a great Artery called by Anatomists Aorta This Artery spreading it self into many branches distributs it to every part of the body that it may nourish enliven move every member Testiculi interim nesi omissi quasi castrati e nostra microcrosmi historiola exulent partem dicti alimenti allicientes in spumosum semen digerunt in usum peculiarem recondunt The blood by its motion through the Arteries is rarified made more hot subtil and vivid for it doth not rest or stagnate in the arteries but emptyed out of the utmost twigs of the Arteries into the veines returnes by a circular motion to the heart in its passage communicating influence vigor activity nourishment to every member and augmentation too so long as there is need but that bears date no longer than till such time as the body arrives at its Aime and consistence which is when the bones the main supporters of and rules of dimension for it are grown so hard that they are not capable of any further extention for then the rest of the parts refuse the superaddition of new matter more than what serves to repair that that decayes by continual motion and is requisite to assist them in their motions and operations As all parts of our body participate of this kind and active influence of the blood so the Brain seemes to ingrosse the purest portion of it the thicker part cannot arrive there by reason of the narrow passages through which it is percolated the Brain digests it into a thin substance called animal spirits which are dispersed in the nerves contributing sense and motion to the whole body The most remarkable motion and of most absolute necessity is respiration and is thus accomplished The animal spirits which take their way to the Muscles of the Brest through the nerves that are branched thither move and dilate the great Muscle called Diaphragma which by consequence extends the parts of the Brest whereupon the Lungs which accomodate themselves to the motion of the brest are also dilated as a pair of bellowes so is also the sharp Artery and the contagious aire which is ready to fill any concave or fistular body that hath nothing else to fill it is protruded one part rejecting the other till that next to the mouth and Nose enters but after a little pause the Lungs contracting themselves when the Diaphragma is erected in a convex figure and presses upon them send it forth and instantly receive a new supply This alternate motion is of manifold use for the intromission of cool and fresh aire and it serves to refresh the heart Lungs and Stomach in case they be too hot so especially it contributes to the production of vital spirits which participate of an aiery nature and may probaly somewhat assist the heart in that motion whereby it conveyes the blood into the Arteries and in this respect is of absolute necessity of preserve life The emission of it serves as to express our several passions so likewise to frame our speech when we sigh thereby giving a hint of some close grief we emit our breath through the artery being open not resisting or gâ—ving any collision to it with a deep and laborious breathing When we would cry loud we cause it to break forth with a smart violence and vociferation when we laugh the â—â—â—od jâ—rking nimbly from the Hâ—aâ—â— to the lungs huffe them up 〈◊〉 â—nly and by turns so as they 〈◊〉 the aire to go forth at the sharp artery with a kind of trepidation or interrupted motion and with all twitch the Muscles of the Diaphragma Brest and Face which causeth a quavering motion discernible in the countenance and a warbling inarticulate sound But in speaking there are more little engines set on work the sharp Artery alternately dilates contracts its self the larynx or upper part or lid of it intercepts or gives free passage to the aire the parts that constitute the orb of the mouth the Tongue Teeth Palat and Lips make various stops dashes and callisions upon it the various extention of the sharp Artery contributes to the diversifying of our voice into shrill or low acute or flat for if the artery be much streightned and compressed the voice becomes flat if freely dilated it proves accute the larynx by its motion serves to make the stops or distances between our words the organs of the mouth make it articulate and significative For as in a Pipe the sound extending its self in a right line would be uniform and of one tone did not the artist intercept it so would our breath cause an uniform and uselesse noise if it should freely convey its self in a direct progresse but encountering the Mouthes cavity it is obliged to assume various figures and conform its self to the configuration of the mouth The five vowels a e i o u seem to be made only by the different emission of the breath and require not any observeable action of the parts of the mouth but seem to be accomplished by the different extentions of the sharp
Artery for as in a pipe so in our artery the same proportion of aire may yeeld a various sound according as the passage is either widened or compressed still or quavering But the Consonants are formed with more extant and discernably motion when the Lips endeavour to stop and intercept the aire in its passage b and p are formed when the basis of the tongue strikes at the palate c and g are pronounced when the point of the tongue strikes at the teeth and dashes the emergent aire against them you may hear the sound of t and d If the Lips be shut and the breath mount upward toward the nose the letter m is framed when the tongue stops the breath by clapping it selfe to the Palate this motion gives being to the letter n If the breath so stopped makes an escape by the side of the Cheekes then it appears in the sound of l somtimes the breath is as it were pressed either through the teeth alone and s is squeezed out or between the tongue or Palate and thence r comes snarling forth or between the tongue and fore-teeth and so we pronounce z and jod When a soft puffe is emitted between the fore-teeth lips almost compressed if we be troubled with a deafness yet we may see f and vau pronounced Such variety of motions ars requisite to speech but they are managed with so much nimblenesse and dexterity as they evade our observation In spontaneous or progressive motion the animal spirits in the Brain being excited shake and dash forward the next which are in the nerves and by consequence the very nerves themselves the nerves dilate the muscles into which the branches of them are inserted the muscles expanded in bredth become shorter and draw in the tendinesse instruments of motion made up of the coalescence of smal nerves Ligaments and Fibres being contracted in breath and so extended in length they relaxe the tendiness which while they are contracted draw the joints as it were upward toward the brain the fountain of motion and whilst they are relaxed remit them and thus the members drawne up and extended by turnes execute the motions and gestures which we require The sensitive faculty whereby we apprehend exteriour objects acts by the help of the animal spirits too which being resident in the very outmost parts of our bodies in the small or capillary nerves are capable of the least percussion or jog that is made at them and instantly communicate it to the Brain For there be in all or most bodies minute effluvia's or exhalations which like little emissaries and intelligences are continually frisking up and down between those bodies and our senses dash at the organs of our senses when we have first put our selves into a fit posture and â—ause an agitation and vibration upon â—hese tender and tenuious spirits which speedily traject it to the Brain The Nerves which assist our sense of feeling when they receive a light percussion from any palpable object such a pression or percussion is also made upon the Brain one part of the nerve pressing on the other till the motion arrives there as if one move a Lute-string at one end the motion in an imperceptable moment is conveyed to the other end A visible object instantly conveyes a representation of its self through the clear or Chrystal-like humor in the very centre of the eye to the retina or utmost branches of the optick nerve and so upward When we hear a sound the ayre is beaten by a continued motion one part rejects that which is contiguous to it this the next till it arrive at the anfractuous windings of the ear the auditory nerve and so onward In the Nose there are found nerves which terminate in the top of the thrils and these suffer a light impression from warme and moist emanations which steame from odoriferous bodies and are exhalted through the Nostrils and by those processes or branches of the nerves are sublimed up to the Brain In tasting our meat as it slides over the tongue and parts adjoyning conveyes a thin exhalation to the nerves which give notice of it to the fountain of sense The next faculty whereby we judge of objects and entertain them under the notion of pleasing or displeasing nigh or remote great or small usual or unusual we may call estimation That whereby we retein and preserve these impressions is the Memory But the Phantasie excites variously orders and marshals them joins or severs compounds or divides them and frames several conceptions or apprehensions of them When the spirits in the brain are agitated by and receive impressions from either outward objects as in sensation or from the body its self as in hunger thirst the apetites of excretion and the like which have alwaies â— stimulation or acrimony accompaâ—ying them by which they agitate â—he nerves and consequently the brain â—â— the concourse of these impressions â—etermine the spirits in the brain to vaâ—ious motions even when the objects â—re absent and many times when the â—enses are obstructed too as in sleep Now the Phantasy setting these notions before us the estimative faculty presenting them to us as pleasant or distastfull although the things themselves that caused such impressions in us be absent yet we have often times as quick and lively apprehensions of them as vigorous and active motions toward them as if they were not absent but present and such motions are the operations of that faculty which we call the will and may be divided into apetite and aversion for I omit those other acts of the will suspence doubting hope fear joy sorrow and the rest partly for brevities sake because I relate these things cursorily and partly because they are easily reduced to these In appetition the spirits dilate and axpand themselves to welcome a pleasing object object which if present produceth Joy if absent Hope In aversion they contract and retire themselves and lurk in a kinde of fixation upon the apprehension of a displeasing Object which if it be present causeth Grief if absent Fear But I am not yet arrived at that supream faculty whereby Man is distinguished from Bruit beasts those which have been hitherto recited are most of them as eminent some more exact in them than in Man that they have life motion and sense the most ignorant are able to observe that they have estimation of things appears by their choice of Meats seeking of subterfuges and cautelous avoiding of dangers That they have a natural Dialect or way of communicating and imparting their Designs or Thoughts one to another sufficient for them and proportionable to their necessities is discovered by their various tones actions and gestures which they use according to the several occasions they encounter with their nutations and caresses wherewith they salute one another at their meeting Their Memory is discovered by their certain and ready finding out their usual haunts their starting and shrinking from any thing wherein they have found
endeavours check'd and controlled by variety of passions and distempers divers intervening circumstances of persons times and places the strange obliquity of mens manners the unobserved contingency of humane things commonly called Fortune which is ever observed to raise some countermine against the best endeavours these all or some of them interposing in his way cannot but interrupt his proceeding and disinherit him of his expectation It is honour enough for a wise man that he never loses all but couragiously opposing himself against these Adversaries arrives at so much perfection as is attainable by humane industry While I have briefly recorded the vertues of renowned Charinus nothing hath been said concerning his passions and vitious inclinations I mean not to abuse the Reader into a belief that he was free from these certainly he was free from these certainly he was not unconcerned in the ordinary failings and miscariages of men but haveing omitted the particular recitation of his best actions it were unhandsome to goe about to gratifie you with a relation of his worst I shall therefore omit them and as a more lovely and useful advertisement tell you by what meanes he rescued himself from the tyranny of disordered passions and though I cannot say they were so forcible as totally to subdue them yet they preserved him from being subdued by them It will be easily granted that the certainest preservative against vice is not to be acquainted with it not so much as know the very name of it too soon to have the mind habituated to piety in the youth which Charinus's was and besides being of a brave couragious spirit and such are generally most free from base vices he considered the dignity and prerogative of his soul which he scorned to debase by putting it under the wardship of usurping vices Without doubt a serious and solid consideration of our selves as it would elevate our thoughts to a due contemplation of our Maker the main end of our being so would it intice the mind to much resolution iâ— vertuous actions and retract our desires from pursuing such trivial delights as result from things inferior to our natures but this must not be an idle and carelesse meditation such as men ordinarily entertain when receiving some sublime dictates of reason suggested to them by their own thoughts or the writings or discourses of learned men they write them in the sand give them a short applause in their thoughts whereas if they were entertained with serious resolutions to act according to them they might leave a deep impression upon their judgement and will and by practice become as it were natural to them were the mind so industrious as to improve them to their utmost extent and latitude Besides this a serious converse with our selves would contribute no small assistance to the discovery of real and solid truth refined from the superfluities of so many distinctions formalities and nice criticismes as rather obscure than illustrate it We need not suffer our thoughts to range into such extravagancies as usually we do especially in such sciences as may be digested into axioms and aphorisms a few clear principles naturally deduced from reason would state our mindes in the handling and managing of them without that multitude of curious questions and vain niceties which like to brambles intricately perplex us but afford no fruit Admired Critic whose laborious quill Takes the dimensions of th' Armenian Hill Surveyes the Lybian desarts to inquire Whether mount Atlas or those hils be higher Return fond Pilgrim know thy self and rest In the close confines of thy native brest In the next place we must take notice that he was not indulgent to or inamored of his own passions but desired and resolved to subdue them without a prejudice against them all faint indeavours are ineffectual He avoided the company of such men as were subject to those passions he attempted to subdue and abstracted himself from the interview of provoking objects Objects that tempt incite our affections resemble an eccho the further one drawes himselfe from them the lesse repercussion they make If we expose them to our view and behold them with content the reflection which the present object darts as it were upon us insnares our mind presently but vanisheth and loseth its self by a little absence and though at first to absent our selves from a beloved object be a perplexing torment if we have but patience and resolve to endure the time will come when it will be a pleasure To prevent anger he was alwaies cautelous lest he should by any means make other men his enemies he would not willingly disoblige the meanest person lest he should provoke them to offer indignities and so he might be provoked to revenge he also avoided much earnest businesse and excessive study wherein if one be interrupted that usually procureth some vexation curiosity also and costly things the one as it may now and then find out somewhat that pleases so it often encounters with discontents the losse of the other ordinarily procures vexation If he were at any time surprized by this churlish passion he did not undertake of a sudden totally to suppresse it but by degrees averted his thoughts from that which displeased him till time gently allaid the commotion which was raised in the blood and spirits Drunkennesse the bane of many a man of great parts and prodigious wits which as they have an advantage for the attainment of vertue so are they inclined to the greatest vices he avoided by sometimes changing his seat binding himself by a solemn vow and resolution for a short time at first and afterwards for a longer setting himselfe to perform some task and till that were finished resolved upon a retired course by these honest cheats he defrauded his appetite of that bewitching thing called company-keeping and for his paines found a most sincere pleasure in abstinence to the utter disparagement of voluptuousnesse There is a restlesse and lingring passion called love I never heard he was surprized at least not baffled by it but to such as were he principally disswaded them from solitude and reclusenesse which cause ones thoughts to be pertinaciously fixt upon that he loves advised them to frequent and visit their friends and be sure to impart their thoughts and open their distemper to some prudent and discreet person whose counsel and perswasion they should find marvellously efficatious in such an occasion Sadnesse Melencholy and dejection of spirit are very incident to vertuous and ingenious men who at the emergency of crosse accidents more earnestly ruminate upon their sorrowes use a kind of skill in tormenting themselves and though company imployment and such divertisments may somewhat allay the distemper for a time yet their minds are very acute in retriving their grievances and amplifying their sorrowes by a tedious and irksome remembrance To such men he recommended what he had with good success experimented such directions as these to avoid solitarinesse vigorously
occluso orificio arcte amplexatur Ipsum vero semen in utero non diu adeo mor as ducit quin quam primum effluviis quibusdam subtilissimis plasticam ei virtutem indiderit contagio seu fermentatione impraegnaverit illico vel evanescit vel in vas a uteri seminalia abripitur unde brevi spatio vel ipsum semen vel humor quidam albugineus in uterum transudat in massam quandam liquidam coagulatur in cujus ipsissimo centro punctum quoddam sanguineum sen bullula saliens conspicitur quod calore nativo sensim anctum dilatatum instar vermiculi seu pusillae teredinis se motitat Divers smal Filaments or Strings which are appointed for the Veins stream from that red spot and at the end of some of them a knot of liquid matter being the rude or original draught of the head and out of that again three distinct Orbicular parts bubble forth designed to be the Brain and Eyes all these by the power of heat are still rarified and dilated afterward the main Trunk or Fabrick of the Body in which the Ribs and other Bones appear at first but as small white lines next to these the Inward parts the Heart Lungs Liver Spleen and Bowels these at first appear but as small Protuberancies or Excrescencies of the Veins and as it were hang out of the Body not yet covered with skin but at last are drawn into and rest in their particular Regions or Receptacles appointed for them by Nature The last which appear are such parts as serve only for Ornament or Defence as Skin Nails Hair and the rest The gross and less useful part of that liquid matter is thrust outward by the plastick Vertue and constitutes the Membranes wherein the Embroy is inwrapped within these Membranes is contained a certain humour transmitted into them by the umbilical Arteries of the Mother not excrementitious but nutritive for the Umbilical or Navil-veins of the Infant convey it into the hollow vein by the branches whereof it is distributed into every part of the body Now when the Infant is exactly shaped there is produced a lump of glandulous flesh which serves to prepare and concoct Nutriment for him which in all probability he sucks in at his mouth as may be conjectured by his being so exact at sucking as soon as he is born When the Members and Parts of the Infant become somwhat stiff and solid when the Brain Nerves and Organs of the Sences are finished he begins to move and tumble with some perceptible strength and then Women say they are quickned whereas before he enjoyed only a trepidation or little frisking not discernable and waxing by degrees great and strong advances himself to seek a larger Room Cujus gratia mira divini numinis providentia ossium commissurae nempe coxendicis ossis sacri synchondrosis item coccygis synneurosis ad recludendum ampliandumque uteri orificium relaxantur The Infant by calcitration and strangling many times pulls asunder the Membranes which infetter him but Eriander was found involved in them firm and entire which I record not as a Foundation whereon to build any superstitious prediction of his future Fortune but as an Argument of vivacity conceiving that such a kinde of Birth is most mature and agreeable to Natures Intention which having given maturity to her Works causes them not to be torn away but to drop off with ease from their Stem or Mother as we see in the Fruits of Trees but is often defeated by the weakness of the Mother not correspondent to the strength of the Child the confirmation of the parts or the like reasons and not seldome by the over-much expedition of busie Midwives who to accelerate as they pretend the Birth and put an end to the Torments they perceive the Mother to endure use some indecent violence that proves noxious to both the ordinary period to perfect the formation of the Infant is about forty dayes the usual time of bringing forth is about forty weeks or ten months notwithstanding the strength or weakness of the Mother or Childe may either accelerate or prolong the birth and fix an exception to this general Rule And now let the Reader allow himself a little leisure to consider upon how slender a foundation the wonderful Fabrick of this little World is erected from how pitiful yet admirable Original the greatest Grandees of the World that swell so big in their own and other mens estimation are extracted the wonderfulness of it rebates the sharpness of all Eloquence and puts it beyond the ability of expression and this may partly be the cause of that vain carelesness whereof we all have a spice we seldome take the pains to look into our selves nothing earnestly affects us but what comes under the notion of Novelty Custome and Familiarity with things blunts the edge of our Admiration The intricate and curious contrivance of our own Bodies is a work surpassing all the Mechanical Inventions in the world yet either because we are lazy and dull in our speculations or because they are not offered to us under the notion of Novelty we take no great notice of them but are more affected with a pretty piece of Clock-work Carving Painting or the like we are transported with wonder at the sight of a strange Beast and are the greatest strangers to our selves The scope of this story as I have designed it obliges me to say somewhat concerning this subject before I proceed any further because many things which are to follow cannot otherwise be well understood by Vulgar Readers to the Learned I shall not need to write any thing concerning Man who are ordinarily no such strangers to themselves Man consists of a Body and a Soul an Invisible part and a Visible by the purity and energy of the Soul he is enabled to discern and know himself and things different from himself the gross composure of the body renders him an object of Sense and both together make him sociable So he fals under a three-fold consideration viz. that of the body alone the Soul alone and both together The first is managed by Philosophers and Physicians the second by Divines and Philosophers and the third by Moralists Divines Historyans Writers of policy in whose elaborate writings may be found ample discoveryes of what I shall only glance at The body consists of parts either contayned which being tenuious and fluid are therefore bounded and kept in by such as are more tough compacted such are all the humors of the body Blood Choler Melancholy and Flegme with the spirits which are nothing else but the purer part of the blood as the other humors are the grosse and sedimentary part of it so as the various humors in the body are no more but blood diversifyed or somewhat percolated from the blood as Urine Sweat Choler Melancholy and all serose humors The parts contayning which limit and confine others are either similar of like nature
the choice of his study or particular faculty to which he should be designed it was now thought fit to consider of it provide that he should apply himself to such a course as was most agreeable to his disposition not forced upon that from which he might seem averse It is true a man of good parts rare ingenuity may by diligence attain a competent insight into any Science so far at least as concerns the Theory and to give a rational account of most Sciences is expected in a Schollar yet there is a peculiar Genius or propensity of mind in every man whereby he is more vigorously inclined to one Science than to another and an infinite variety there is in mens wits and natural faculties the principal causes whereof are these 1. The appointment and designation of God who having placed men in a world adorned with variety of objects distributes to them diversity of notions and conceits to apprehend different humors and affections to desire some one thing some another thereby to maintain a general intercourse among them But in regard that God works by second subordinate causes which fall more evidently under our observation and many of them are manageable by us We must secondly consider the positions and aspects of the Stars For experience the only rule in these matters seem to make it appear that at the instant of a childs birth or rather more powerful at his conception he receives an influence from the Planets or other Coelestial bodies which at that juncture of time have dominion over the place where the conception or birth is made Such then as have Jupiter for the Lord of their genitures shall be quick-witted merry and of a gentle nature Where Mercury is Lord of the horoscope his influence produces they say a quick wit but versatile and unconstant Mars causeth fierceness and temerity Saturn makes men slow but commonly sure The Sun and Moon according to their various aspects produce several alterations in our bodies in our sensitive faculties and accidentally in the understanding which often conforms its selfe to the sensitive part is clear by dayly experience and it is probable that the other Coelestial bodies may in their degree produce divers admirable effects though they be not so obvious and apparent 3. The temper of the body hath a remarkable influence upon the operations of the mind for as water sliding through a Mine grates off some part of the matter through which it slides dissolves it into its self and so admits a tincture and tast of the Mineral or as rain-water which is of its self of an uniform tast and savour is diversified when sucked into plants of a different temper in Rue it is bitter in Sorrel sowre and sweet in Glycyrrize so the Soul necessitated to move and act in a body full of several humors although it receives no substantial alteration yet by its operations it clearly discovers an alliance contracted with those humors especially the arterial blood and spirit which are the Souls chief instruments so that men of a hot temper agreeable to the nature of that quality are active spritely of a ready conceit quick dispatch if the heat exceed peevish or frantick The cold are slow reserved tenatious and if the quality exceed disposed to Melancholy sadnesse and despair Moisture if conveniently temper'd causes a good remembrance if otherwise it makes men dull heavy and sottish A clear drinesse makes men discreet of a clear wit to discern or illuminate things Next to this 4. the different habitude and proporiton of the body may be of some force for such as are of an immence stature through the diffusion of the spirits are observed to be for the most part dul and heavy in the exercises of the mind the little through the combining and close uniting of the natuarl heat peevish fierce and froward and the middle stature is most commendable But 5. a more remarkable and immediate cause may be derived from the various faculties of the soul of which all men have not an equal share some enjoy a good memory and those are fittest to deal with such Arts wherein are many names words and rules Such as have strong fancies quick imaginations are fittest for such Professions in which there is required quaintnesse of discourse handsome contrivances symmetry or proportion They who excel in depth of understanding are best able to search out the nature and causes of things to determine doubts and decide controversies to make choice and judge of things to make subtil and deep inquiries and are therefore best qualified for such Sciences as are guided by these exercises of the mind And to this Triplicity I find all variety of wits reduced by those that have formerly written concerning them and not inconveniently because these three faculties are of such remarkable effecacy in the gaining of learning But in these faculties there is much variety which deserves our remark for if we look upon the judgement or understanding-faculty we find this man quick the other slow in the exercises of it one man reserved and close another free open and communicative And the like differences appear in such as excel in the faculty of imagination some are nimble others deliberate some of a recluse others of a dilated genius And as for the memory some are readiest in remembring of words some soonest remember places others the names of men but most mens memories soonest retain sentences orderly placed few hath such vast memories as to recollect a multitude of indigested unconnexed words neither would it be a thing of any great use but words duly ordered and comprized contribute a great advantage to the memory this variety which is discovered in these three faculties shall be taken notice of in due place 6. The different passions and several ends to which mens appetites lead them are to be considered a covetous man usually applies himself to some lucrative Art an ambitious man to such as is most in esteem and may further his promotion and is content to be a stranger in the rest which are not subservient to his design 7. And lastly Education for the mind as it receives an impression from those objects it hath been most acquainted with in youth retains them very firmely by degrees falls in love with them by consequence with such Arts as have relation to them These are the principal reasons of that variety which is found in men in relation to the gaining of Arts there are divers other which because they have power to alter their complexion humor and inclination may occasionally dispose them to such Sciences as be most agreeable to the temper they have contracted As 1. the Lawes and 2. the Customes of Nations which if good and wholsome dispose people to industry and honesty if corrupt deprave their minds blind the eyes of many men silence the voice of nature and raze the dictates of reason out of their affections so as the