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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24063	An account of the Oriental philosophy shewing the wisdom of some renowned men of the East and particularly the profound wisdom of Hai Ebn Yokdan, both in natural and divine things, which he attained without all converse with men, (while he lived in an island a solitary life, remote from all men from his infancy, till he arrived at such perfection) / writ originally in Arabick by Abi Jaaphar, Ebn Tophail ; and out of the Arabick translated into Latine by Edward Pocok ... and now faithfully out of his Latine, translated into English.; Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān. English	Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, d. 1185.; Pococke, Edward, 1604-1691.	1674 (1674)	Wing A150; ESTC R7120	74,340	126

another bubling arose divided into three receptacles among which there were thin partitions and open passages and they were filled with a body of air not unlike unto that where with the first receptacle was filled but that that was more thin and in these three ventricles divided out of one some of those faculties were placed which were subject to it and to the same was committed their custody and defence and whatever should arise there they should deferre it whether much or little to the first or chief Spirit placed in the first receptacle Also over against this second receptacle a third bubling rose up filled also with a body of air but thicker then the two former and in this receptacle were placed some others of the inferiour faculties for the preserving and sustaining of which it was appointed and these were the three teceptacles to wit the first second and third which were first made out of the great masse of that fermented clay in the manner we have described But they needed mutual help one of another and the first needed the other two for their obedience and service and the two needed the first as subjects need their Prince and commanding them who are under command yet every one of them in respect of the members afterwards formed was a Prince not a Subject but one of them to wit the second was of a more absolute power then the third But the first by the force of that Spirit joyned thereunto and of its burning heat became into a conical figure of the fire and so that thick body which compassed it was of the same figure and became solid flesh covered with a thick covering for its preservation This whole member is called the Heart Now in respect of the dissolution and losse of moisture which followeth the heat something was necessary which might serve to sustain and nourish it and continually restore what was consumed otherwise it could not endure Also it was needful that it should be touched with the sense of what was convenient for it and might attract it unto it self as also with the sense of the contrary that it might thrust it back To the supplying one of them in things needful one member is substitute with the faculties thereto belonging another member supplied another with things it needed That member which did preside over the things belonging to sense was the Brain that which ordered concerning the nourishment was the Liver Both of them needed that first member that it might help them and their peculiar faculties proceeding of them with its heat And for the good of all there were interwoven diverse passages and opens some wider then others as the necessity of the thing required and so the Arteries and Veins came to be After this they proceed to describe the whole Structure of the body and all its members in the same manner as the Physiologues use to depaint the formation of the Embryon in the womb omitting nothing till the whole composure be perfected and all its members compleated and that it resemble an Embryon presently to come forth of the womb And to describe these things fully they call in for help that great fermented masse of clay which was of that condition that of it was formed whatever is required to the procreation of Man of the coverings which cover the body and other things of that sort and when it was perfected that these coverings being rent by it fell away as in the grief of child-bearing and that it broke through the other hardened part of the clay At length that this Infant the matter of the nourishment decaying and hunger urging it cryed for help and that the Goat which had lost its young one hearkened unto it Then what they declare after this place and what those declare who embrace the former sentence are agreeable For both say that this Goat which received the child having got a fruitful and large pasture became fat and had that abundance of milk whereby to nourish the Infant after the best manner and she was alwayes with it and never departed therefrom but when through necessity she went to eat Also the Infant used the company of the Goat so that if she stayed away longer then usually it would cry bitterly which when the Goat heard presently she ran unto it Nor was there any ravenous or hurtful beast in the whole Island So the Infant encreased and grew being nourished with the Goats milk untill it was two years old at which time it began by degrees to go and have fore-teeth and it alwayes followed the Goat which kindly entreated it and embraced it with tender affection and led it unto places that were planted with fruitful trees and she fed it with the sweet and ripe fruits which fell of from the trees breaking them which had a hard shel with her teeth and when it sought milk she gave it her Duggs and when it desired water she led it thereunto and where the beams of the Sun troubled it she shadowed it where it suffered by the cold she warmed it and when night ensued she led it to the former place and covered it partly with her own body and partly with the feathers that remained of those wherewith the coffin was furnished when the Infant was put into it and as often as they either went forth at morning or returned at evening a company of Goats accompanied them which in the morning went forth with them and at night lay in the same place with them So the child still remaining among the Goats did also imitate their voice with its voice that scarce was there any difference Also in the same manner whatever voice it heard whether of Birds or other liviving creatures it exactly resembled them by a faculty wherein it excelled of apprehending whatever it would But the voices which it mostly resembled were these of the Goats whereby they sought help or called their neighbours or would that they should come nearer or go farder off for unto these various ends these living creatures have diverse voices and so the Child and the wild Beasts accompanied one another for neither did they shun him nor he them And now when the images of things became fixed in his mind after they were removed from his sight he was so affected that he desired some of them and had an aversion from others In the mean time while he vieweth all the kinds of the wild beasts he saw them all covered with Wool or Hair or diverse kinds of Plumes also he beheld their nimbleness and strength and what armour they had to beat back the things which contended with them as Horns Hoofs Spurs and the like but whereas he looked to himself he saw himself naked destitute of armour slow in motion weakin strength when they contended with him about the fruits that were to be eaten so that they kept them to themselves and pulled them from him nor could he restrain them from him or flee from any

Commodities inhabited by men where at that time a man very proud and of a suspicious nature did govern he had a Sister that was very beautiful and comely which he kept closs from marrying because he found not an equal unto her But there was one near unto him called Yokdhan who privatly married her according to the Rites of that Sect of men known in these times of whom having conceived she did bear a Son She fearing the discovery of the matter and that what she had kept closs should be made known after she had given the Infant the Breasts she put it into a little Coffin which when she had firmly closed and brought it to the Shore some Servants and the most faithful of her Friends conveying her in the fore-part of the night her heart burning towards the Child with love and fear having taken her farewel of the Child spake thus O God thou hast created this Infant when as yet it was nothing and thou didst nourish it in the darkness of my bowels and thou hadst a care of it until it came forth sound and perfect I being afraid of that unjust proud and contumacious King commit the same unto thy goodness hoping thou wilt be bountiful unto him be thou an help unto him forsake him not who surpassest all in mercy When she had said these things she committed the little Coffin unto the Sea which the flowing of the water moved with force of the stream the same night brought to the Shore of another Island whereof we formerly made mention But the flowing of the water at that time came as far up on the Land as could be whither once in the year only it did reach the water therefore by its force did cast the Coffin into a thick Grove full of Trees a place of a fruitful soyl fenced from winds and rains and defended against the Sun which at its rising and setting declined from it There the water decreasing and departing from the Coffin wherein the Infant was so that it settled in the same place the Sands by the blowing of the winds rose up thither that they came to a heap and obstructed the entrance of the light unto the Coffin and hindered the coming in of any water unto it that the flood might not reach it And it came to pass that when the water thrust the Coffin upon the Grove the Nails of the Coffin loosed and the Boards from one another and when the Child being very hungry cried bitterly seeking help and moved it self its cry did come unto the ears of a wild Goat or Roe which wanted its Hind which having come from its Den was caught by a ravenous Bird she hearing the voice and imagining it to be her young one followeth the voice until she came unto the Coffin which she pulled with her Claws on every side the Child in the mean time strugling within so that out of the upper part a Board of the Coffin did leap off but she having beheld the Child pitied it and moved with great affection thereunto put to it its Duggs and pleasantly nourished it with her milk and constantly coming unto it fed it and defended it from evil And this is it which they record of its origine who will not assent that it was born without Parents But we shall afterwards declare how it did grow and how it made several progresses one after another until it reached unto great perfection But who think it was born of the earth say that in some low place of that Island in process of years and times a certain Clay doth ferment so far until heat and cold moisture and dryness agree in it in an equal temper and in equal strength and that there was a great masse of this clay wherein some parts did exceed others in the equality of temper and were more fit for the generation of a mixt body and that the midst of it was of a most perfect temper and most equal like unto the humane temper the matter being agitate bells or bublings rose up as use to be in the bubling of water because of the great clamminess of it and it came to pass that some viscous tough or clammy thing was in the midst of it with a small bell or bubling full of a subtile and aery body divided into two parts with a thin vail of a most equal temper which did agree unto it Then at the command of the most high God a Spirit being infused joyned it self unto the same and did cleave so closely unto it that it could scarcely be separate therefrom either by sense or understanding this Spirit still flowing forth from God as is manifnst and like to the light of the Sun which continually influenceth the world But among bodies some do not return the light such as the thin air very thin by others the light is returned but in an imperfect manner of illumination such as thick bodies which are not smooth but these bodies differing according to the reception of light for the same reason their colours differ also but again by others the light is returned in a most perfect manner of illumination such ar smooth bodies as Looking-glasses and the like so that by these glasses if they be concavated in a convenient figure fire is kindled because of the excess of light After this manner that Spirit which is of the commandment of God is infused continually into all creatures But there are of them wherein no print of it doth appear for want of a fit disposition in them such are things without life resembling the air in the former similitude Again some there are wherein some print of it appeareth as the divers sorts of plants according unto their dispositions and these answer unto these thick bodies in the same similitude Again there are some wherein the impression thereof is very conspicuous and these are diverse kinds of living creatures which resemble those smooth and shining bodies in the same similitude But among those smooth bodies some more plentifully receive light from the Sun because they resemble the figure of the Sun and his similitude and are formed according to his Image such especially is man which is signified where it is said God made man according to his Image But if this form prevail so in him that in comparison thereof all other forms be as it were reduced to nothing and it only remaineth so that the glory of its light burn up whatever it taketh hold of then it resembleth those glasses which reflect light in themselves and burneth up other things but this befalleth none but Prophets and all this may become manifest in a fit place But that we may now return and speak more fully of what they affirm who describe this manner of generation They say when that Spirit had joyned it self unto that receptacle that all the other faculties yielded unto it and obeyed it being universally thereunto subjected by the commandment of God But over against that receptacle

be attributed any of these things which are attributed unto the body and that it cannot be apprehended by any of the senses nor by imagination and whose knowledge is not acquired by any other instrument then by it self but that it cometh unto it by its own help and that it is the knowing the knowable and the knowledge and the scient the science and the scibile nor that in any of these was there any thing different seing diversity and separation belong to the attributes of bodies and are the adjuncts of them but this was neither a body nor any attribute of a body nor any thing adherent unto a body And when the way was manifest unto him whereby it was proper to him to be like unto the heavenly bodies he saw it did necessarily belong to him to resemble them and to imitate their actions and that with all his strength he should endeavour to be like unto them And also he saw by his more noble part by which he knew that necessary existent beeing that there was in himself some similitude thereof as he was separated from the attributes of the body as that necessary existent beeing was separated from them He saw also that it was his duty to labour to acquire the properties thereof by what way soever he could and to put on his qualities and to imitate his actions and to be diligent in doing his will and committing his affairs to him and to acquiesce in his heart in all his appointments both as to the outward and inward so as he might rejoyce in him although his body should be afflicted with grief and should hurt him yea although altogether he should lose his bodily part He saw moreover that he resembled other sorts of animals in his vilest part which was of the generable and corruptible world to wit in the obscure and gross body which required diverse sorts of sensible things from him as meat drink and marriage Also he saw that his body was not created in vain nor joyned to him for no end and that it belonged to him to provide for it and fitly to keep it but that he could not perform this care but by some action answering unto the actions of other animals But the actions which seemed necessary unto him had a threefold respect for they were either an action by which he did resemble the unreasonable animals or some action whereby he did resemble the heavenly bodies or some action whereby he did resemble that necessary existent beeing for the first assimilation was necessary to him as he had an obscure and gross body consisting of distinct members and various faculties and motions of diverse sorts The second assimilation was necessary unto him as he had an animal spirit the seat whereof was in the heart and which was the beginning of the whole body and of the faculties contained therein Then the third assimilation was necessary to him as he was himself i. e. as he was that essence by which he could know that necessary existent beeing And this was first of all certain unto him that his happiness and freedom from misery was placed in the perpetual vision of that necessary existent beeing so as to be in that state as not to be turned away or averted therefrom for one moment Then he considered the wayes whereby this continuation might be acquired and his contemplation thence gathered that he was to exercise himself in these three sorts of similitude And as to the first similitude that from the same he attained nothing of this vision but that it rather drew him forth to another thing and it was an hinderance to him when he exercised himself in sensible things for all sensible things are as a vail interposed unto this vision yet this assimilation is needful to preserve the animal spirit whereby the second assimilation is acquired which is with heavenly bodies and after this manner it is necessarily required although it be not free from that hurt but as to the second conformity that thereby is acquired a great part of the continued vision but yet such a vision as wherein there is a mixture whereas every one who by that manner of vision continually seeth seeth also together his own essence and looketh into that as shall be afterwards declared but as to the third conformity that thereby the perfect vision is attained and the sincere attention having no respect in any manner but unto that necessary existent beeing whereas his essence is absent from him who seeth this vision and evanisheth and becometh as nothing as also all the other essences whether many or few except the essence of that one true necessary existent great high and powerful beeing And when it was manifest to him that the sum of his desires consisted in this third conformity but that this is not acquired but after exercise and pains given for a long time to the second conformity and this space could not be continued but by the first conformity which although it was necessary yet he knew of it self it was an impediment though it was an help by accident he restrained his mind that he permitted unto himself no part of the first conformity but as much as necessity required and that was in that largeness as less sufficed not to the preservation of the animal spirit and he saw two things which necessity required to the preservation of this spirit one that whatever nourishment he took it preserved the same inwardly and refreshed it another that it preserved that which is external and repelled from it diverse sorts of hurts as of cold and heat and rain and the warmth of the Sun and of hurtful animals and the like and he saw if he did rashly and hastily take any of these things which were necessary it might come to pass that he should be obnoxious to excess and should take above what were fit and work against himself whence he did not consider therefore he saw he would do most advisedly if he should appoint limits to himself that he should not at all transgress and measures which he should not exceed and it was plain to him that he should put this rule to himself about the kind of the things which he should eat and the quality of them and about their quantity and the time when to make use of them And first he considered the kinds of these things which he did eat and he saw them to be three viz. either to be Plants not fully ripe nor attained to full perfection such as the sorts of green herbs which a man could eat or the fruits of Plants that were perfect and which were ripe and yielded their seed that from thence others could be brought forth and these kinds of fruits were both green and dry or to be some animal either belonging to the earth or the sea which used to be eaten now it was certain unto him that all these things were made by that necessary existent beeing in the approach unto which