Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            temerè blandiamur vix paucula quædam conjecturâ aſſequi nos
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            poſſe credendum ſit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18060" xml:space="preserve">Conamur aliquid dicere, ne elingues
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            ſimus, atque tantiſper cogitatis noſtris inhæremus, dum quis
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            probabiliora in medium proferat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18061" xml:space="preserve">Cæterùm ſatius eſt poſt mul-
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            tam commentationem, ac meditationem modeſtè inſcientiam
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            profiteri, quàm obſtinatione quadam ſententiæ repudiare dubi-
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            tationes, ſi quæ in contrarium ſuboriantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18062" xml:space="preserve">Plura ſunt à vobis
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            acutè excogitata, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18063" xml:space="preserve">perſpicuè expoſita: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18064" xml:space="preserve">neque rejicio, quippe
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            qui nihil habeo, quod afferam probabilius, ſi res quidem ſit
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            Phyſicè tranſigenda. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18065" xml:space="preserve">In diſquirendis brutorum animantium,
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            perceptionibus, atque appetitionibus, ſubvereor multarum,
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            quæſtionum anſam philoſophantibus præbuiſſe analogiam,
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            quam ſuſpicati ſunt intercedere cum intelligentiâ, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18066" xml:space="preserve">voluntate
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            hominum ratione utentium, ac proinde plus brutis animanti-
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            bus tribuiſſe, quàm res, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18067" xml:space="preserve">veritas ipſa concedat, uſque adeò,
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            ut aliqui non dubitârint ſaltem perfectiorum animam indivi-
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            duam, ac partibus carentem aſſerere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18068" xml:space="preserve">Si ex iis, quæ homines
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            cognoſcentes atque appetentes experimur, liceat notionem
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            capere eorum, quæ brutis accidunt, non nos vigilantes ac rationis
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            compotes, ſed potiùs ſomniantes, cum illis comparandi ſumus;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18069" xml:space="preserve">quando ſcilicet phantaſmata mentis arbitrio non reguntur. </s>
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            Quanquam ne ſomniantes quidem homines cum illis omninò
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            conferendos cenſeo: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18071" xml:space="preserve">tantus quippe eſt humani animi cum cor-
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            pore nexus, quandiu vivimus, ut, quemadmodum intelligen-
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            tem oportet ſimul cum phantaſmate ſpeculari, ita phantaſma-
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            tum commotio mentis notiones excitet, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18072" xml:space="preserve">appetentis corporis
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            impetus mentem invadat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18073" xml:space="preserve">id quod etiam dormientibus accidit,
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            nam multa ſæpè cogitant à ſenſibus remota, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18074" xml:space="preserve">non rarò rationis
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            ductum ſequi videntur, qui vigilantes aſſueti cohibere appetitûs
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            cupiditates, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18075" xml:space="preserve">iras, illis etiam ſomniantes repugnant, licèt citrà
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            voluntatis laudabile arbitrium. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18076" xml:space="preserve">Ex quo fit non prorſus eadem
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            contingere brutis animantibus, quæ nobis ſomniantibus, quaſi
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            in nobis mens omninò otiaretur, quando phantaſmata ſuos
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            agunt motus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18077" xml:space="preserve">ſed ex ſomniis noſtris conjecturam aliquam capere
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            poſſumus de animantibus ratione carentibus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18078" xml:space="preserve">Phantaſmata,
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            autem non ineptè dicamus Spiritus illos Animales, tùm quo-
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            rum facultas hoc vel illo modo ſe vibrandi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18079" xml:space="preserve">proximam cere-
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            bri partem irritandi, originem ducit ab impulſu, quem in,
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            organo impreſſit res obiecta, tùm qui in cortice cerebri (ſive,
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            alibi) ſimili impreſſione & </s>
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            randum. </s>
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