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

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            excited it iſſueth not forth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11901" xml:space="preserve">Putrefaction is a mixed work of the Spirits and of the
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            groſſer parts: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11902" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirit (which before reſtrained and bridled the parts of the
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            thing) being partly iſſued forth and partly infeebled, all things in the body do diſſolve
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            and return to their Homogeneities, or (if you will) to their Elements: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11903" xml:space="preserve">that which was
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            Spirit in it is congregated to it ſelf, whereby things putrefied begin to have an ill ſa-
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            vour: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11904" xml:space="preserve">the Oily parts to themſelves, whereby things putrefied have that ſlipperineſs
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            and unctuoſity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11905" xml:space="preserve">the watry parts alſo to themſelves: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11906" xml:space="preserve">the Dregs to themſelyes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11907" xml:space="preserve">whence
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            followeth that confuſion in bodies putrefied. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11908" xml:space="preserve">But Generation or Vivification is a work
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            alſo mixed of the Spirit and groſſer parts, but in a far different manner: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11909" xml:space="preserve">for the Spirit
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            is totally detained, but it ſwelleth and moveth locally: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11910" xml:space="preserve">and the groſſer parts are not
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            diſſolved, but follow the motion of the ſpirit, and are, as it were, blown out by it,
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            and extruded into divers figures, from whence cometh that Generation and Organiza-
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            tion: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11911" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Vivification is always done in a matter tenacious and clammy, and
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            again, yielding and ſoft, that there may be both a detention of the ſpirit, and alſo a
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            gentle ceſſion of the parts, according as the ſpirit forms them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11912" xml:space="preserve">And this is ſeen in the
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            matter as well of all Vegetables as of living Creatures, whether they be engendred of
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            Putrefaction or of Sperm; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11913" xml:space="preserve">for in all theſe things there is manifeſtly ſeen a matter
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            hard to break through, eaſie to yield.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head112" xml:space="preserve">Canon IV.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11915" xml:space="preserve">IN all living Creatures there are two kinds of Spirits: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11916" xml:space="preserve">Liveleſs Spirits, ſuch as are in bo-
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            dies Inanimate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11917" xml:space="preserve">and a Vital Spirit ſuperadded.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head113" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11919" xml:space="preserve">IT was ſaid before, that to procure long life the Body of man muſt be conſidered,
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            firſt, as Inanimate, and not repaired by nouriſhment: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11920" xml:space="preserve">ſecondly, as Animate, and
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            repaired by nouriſhment: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11921" xml:space="preserve">for the former conſideration gives Laws touching (Conſump-
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            tion, the latter touching Reparation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11922" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we muſt know that there are in hu-
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            mane fleſh bones, M
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            embranes, Organs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11923" xml:space="preserve">finally, in all the parts ſuch ſpirits diffuſed
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            in the ſubſtance of them while they are alive, as there are in the ſame things (Fleſh,
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            Bones, Membranes, and the reſt) ſeparated and dead: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11924" xml:space="preserve">ſuch as alſo remain in a Car-
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            kaſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11925" xml:space="preserve">but the Vital Spirit, although it ruleth them, and hath ſome conſent with them,
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            yet it is far differing from them, being integral, and ſubſiſting by it ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11926" xml:space="preserve">Now there
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            are two ſpecial differences betwixt the Liveleſs Spirits and the Vital Spirits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11927" xml:space="preserve">The one,
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            that the Liveleſs spirits are not continued to themſelves, but are, as it were, cut off,
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            and encompaſſed with a groſs body which intercepts them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11928" xml:space="preserve">as Air is mixed with
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            Snow or Froth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11929" xml:space="preserve">but the Vital Spirit is all continued to it ſelf by certain Conduit-pipes
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            through which it paſſeth, and is not totally intercepted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11930" xml:space="preserve">And this Spirit is two-fold
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            alſo: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11931" xml:space="preserve">the one branched, onely paſſing through ſinall pipes, and, as it were, ſtrings:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11932" xml:space="preserve">the other hath a Cell alſo, ſo as it is not onely continued to it ſelf, but alſo congre-
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            gated in an hollow ſpace in reaſonable good quantity, according to the Analogy of
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            the body, and in that Cell is the fountain of the Rivulets which branch from thence. </s>
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            That Cell is chiefly in the Ventricles of the Brain, which in the ignobler ſort of crea-
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            tures are but narrow, inſomuch that the ſpirits in them ſeem ſcattered over their whole
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            body rather than Celled; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11934" xml:space="preserve">as may be ſeen in Serpents, Eels and Flies, whereoſ every of
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            their parts move long after they are cut aſſunder. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11935" xml:space="preserve">Birds alſo leap a good while after
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            their heads are pulled off, becauſe they have little heads and little Cells. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11936" xml:space="preserve">But the nobler
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            ſort of creatures have thoſe Ventricles larger, and Man the largeſt of all. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11937" xml:space="preserve">The other
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            difference betwixt the Spirits is, that the Vital Spirit hath a kind of enkindling, and
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            is like a Wind or Breath compounded of Flame and Air, as the Juices of living
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            creatures have both Oil and water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11938" xml:space="preserve">And this enkindling miniſtreth peculiar motions
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            and faculties: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11939" xml:space="preserve">for the ſmoke which is inflamable, even before the flame conceived, is
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            hot, thin and movable, and yet it is quite another thing after it is become flame: </s>
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            but the enkindling of the vital ſpirits is by many degrees gentler than the ſofteſt flame,
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            as of Spirit of Wine, or otherwiſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11941" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, it is in great part mixed with an Aerial
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            ſubſtance, that it ſhould be a Myſtery or Miracle, both of a Flammeons and Aere-
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            ous nature.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head114" xml:space="preserve">Canon V.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11943" xml:space="preserve">THe Natural A Etions are proper to the ſeveral Parts, but it is the Vital Spirit that excites
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            and ſharpens them.</s>
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