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

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              <pb o="57" file="0335" n="335" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
            tion, ſo they excel in judgment, and prefer ſafe things and ſound things before ſpe-
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            cious; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11864" xml:space="preserve">alſo they improve in Garrulity and Oſtentation, for they ſeek the fruit of ſpeech,
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            while they are leſs able for action: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11865" xml:space="preserve">So as it was not abſurd that the Poets feigned old
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            Tithon to be turned into a Graſhopper.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1623" type="section" level="1" n="72">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head105" xml:space="preserve">Moveable Canons of the Duration of Life and Form of Death.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head106" xml:space="preserve">Canon I.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11867" xml:space="preserve">COnſumption is not cauſed, unleſs that which is departed with by one body paſſeth into
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            another.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1624" type="section" level="1" n="73">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head107" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11869" xml:space="preserve">THere is in Nature no Annihilating, or Reducing to Nothing: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11870" xml:space="preserve">therefore that which
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            is conſumed is either reſolved into Air, or turned into ſome Body adjacent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11871" xml:space="preserve">So
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            we ſee a spider, or Fly, or Ant in Amber, entombed in a more ſtately Monument than
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            Kings are, to be laid up for Eternity, although they be but tender things, and ſoon
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            diſſipated: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11872" xml:space="preserve">But the matter is this, that there is no air by, into which they ſhould be
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            reſolved; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11873" xml:space="preserve">and the ſubſtance of the Amber is ſo hetero
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            geneous, that it receives nothing
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            of them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11874" xml:space="preserve">The like we conceive would be if a Stick, or Root, or ſome ſuch thing were
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            buried in Quick-ſilver: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11875" xml:space="preserve">alſo Wax, and Honey, and Gums have the ſame Operation, but in
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            part onely.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1625" type="section" level="1" n="74">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head108" xml:space="preserve">Canon II.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11877" xml:space="preserve">THere is in every Tangible body a Spirit, covered and encompaſſed with the groſſer
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            parts of the body, and from it all Conſumption and Diſſolution hath the begin-
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            ning.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head109" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11879" xml:space="preserve">NO Body known unto us here in the upper part of the Earth is without a Spirit,
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            either by Attenuation and Concoction from the heat of the Heavenly Bodies, or
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            by ſome other way: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11880" xml:space="preserve">for the Concavities of Tangible things receive not Vacuum, but
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            either Air, or the proper Spirit of the thing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11881" xml:space="preserve">And this spirit where of we ſpeak is not
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            ſome Virtue, or Energie, or Act, or a Trifle, but plainly a Body, rare and inviſible;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11882" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding circumſcribed by Place, Quantitative, Real. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11883" xml:space="preserve">Neither again is that
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            Spirit Air, (no more than Wine is Water) but a body rarefied, of kin to Air, though
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            much different from it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11884" xml:space="preserve">Now the groſſer parts of bodies (being dull things, and not
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            apt for motion) would laſt a long time; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11885" xml:space="preserve">but the Spirit is that which troubleth, and
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            plucketh, and undermineth them, and converte
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            th the moiſture of the body, and what-
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            ſoever it is able to digeſt, into new Spirit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11886" xml:space="preserve">and then as well the pre-exiſting Spirit of the
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            body as that newly made flie away together by degrees. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11887" xml:space="preserve">This is beſt ſeen by the Di-
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            minution of the weight in bodies dried through Perspiration: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11888" xml:space="preserve">for neither all that which
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            is iſſued forth was Spirit when the body was ponderous, neither was it not Spirit when
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            it iſſued forth.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head110" xml:space="preserve">Canon III.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11890" xml:space="preserve">THe Spirit iſſuing forth Drieth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11891" xml:space="preserve">Detained and working within either Melteth, or Pu-
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            trefieth, or Vivifieth.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1628" type="section" level="1" n="77">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head111" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11893" xml:space="preserve">THere are four Proceſſes of the Spirit, to Arefaction, to Colliquation, Putre-
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            faction, to Generation of bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11894" xml:space="preserve">Arefaction is not the proper work of the Spirit,
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            but of the groſſer parts after the Spirit iſſued forth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11895" xml:space="preserve">for then they contract them-
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            ſelves partly by their flight of Vacuum, partly by the union of the Homogeneals: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11896" xml:space="preserve">as
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            appears in all things which are arefied by age, and in the drier ſort of bodies which
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            have paſſed the fire, as Bricks, Char-coal, Bread. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11897" xml:space="preserve">colliquation is the mere work of the
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            Spirit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11898" xml:space="preserve">neither is it done but when they are excited by heat: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11899" xml:space="preserve">for when the Spirits
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            dilating themſelves, yet not getting forth, do inſinuate and diſperſe themſelves
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            among the groſſer parts, and ſo make them ſoft and apt to run, as it is in Metalls and
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            wax: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11900" xml:space="preserve">for Metalls and all tenacious things are apt to inhibit the Spirit, that </s>
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