Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head43" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head44" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century VII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5417" xml:space="preserve">THe differences between Animate and Inanimate Bodies, we
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0159-01" xlink:href="note-0159-01a" xml:space="preserve">601.</note>
            ſhall handle fully under the Title of Life, and Living
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0159-02" xlink:href="note-0159-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Affinities and
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              Differences,
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              between Plants
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              and Inanimate
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              Bodies.</note>
            Spirits, and Powers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5418" xml:space="preserve">We ſhall therefore make but a brief
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            mention of them in this place. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5419" xml:space="preserve">The main differences
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            are two. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5420" xml:space="preserve">All Bodies have Spirits, and Pneumatical parts
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            within them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5421" xml:space="preserve">but the main differences between Ani-
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            mate and Inanimate are two. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5422" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is, that the Spirits
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            of things animate, are all contined with themſelves,
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            and are branched in Veins, and ſecret Sanales, as Blood is: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5423" xml:space="preserve">And in Living
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            Creatures, the Spirits have not onely Branches, but certain Sells or Seats,
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            where the principal Spirits do reſide, and whereunto thereſt do reſort: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5424" xml:space="preserve">But
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            the Spirits in things Inanimate are ſhut in, and cut off by the Tangible parts;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5425" xml:space="preserve">and are not pervious one to another, as Air is in Snow. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5426" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond main
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            difference is, that the Spirits of Animate Bodies are all in ſome degree (more
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            or leſs) kindled and in flamed, and have a fine commixture of Flame, and
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            an Ærial ſubſtance: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5427" xml:space="preserve">But Inanimate Bodies have their Spirits no whit in-
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            flamed or kindled. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5428" xml:space="preserve">And this difference conſiſteth not in the Heat or Cool-
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            neſs of Spirits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5429" xml:space="preserve">for Cloves and other Spices, Naptha and Petroleum, have ex-
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            ceeding hot Spirits (hotter a great deal than Oyl, Wax, or Tallow, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5430" xml:space="preserve">c.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5431" xml:space="preserve">but
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            not inflamed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5432" xml:space="preserve">And when any of thoſe weak and temperate Bodies come to
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            be in flamed, than they gather a much greater heat, than others have unin-
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            flamed, beſides their light and motion, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5433" xml:space="preserve">c.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5435" xml:space="preserve">The differences which are ſecondary, and proceed from theſe two ra-
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            dical differences are, firſt, Plants are all figurate and determinate, which
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            inanimate Bodies are not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5436" xml:space="preserve">for look how far the Spirit is able to ſpred and
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            continue it ſelf, ſo far goeth the ſhape or figure, and then is determined.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5437" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, Plants do nouriſh, inanimate Bodies do not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5438" xml:space="preserve">they have an Accre-
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            tion, but no Alimentation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5439" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, Plants have a period of life, which in-
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            animate Bodies have not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5440" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, they have a ſucceſſion and propagation
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            of their kinde, which is not in Bodies inanimate.</s>
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