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

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          <pb o="59" file="0337" n="337" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1632" type="section" level="1" n="81">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head115" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11945" xml:space="preserve">THe Actions or Functions which are in the ſeveral Members follow the nature of
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            the Members themſelves, (Attraction, Retention, Digeſtion, Aſſimilation, Separation,
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            Excretion, Perspiration, even Senſe it ſelf) according to the propriety of the ſeveral
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            Organs, (the Stomach, Liver, Heart, Spleen, Gall, Brain, Eye, Ear, and the reſt:)
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11946" xml:space="preserve">yet none of theſe Actions would ever have been actuated but by the vigour and pre-
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            ſence of the Vital spirit and heat thereof: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11947" xml:space="preserve">as one Iron would not have drawn another
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            Iron, unleſs it had been excited by the Load ſtone, nor an Egge would ever have brought
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            forth a Bird, unleſs the ſubſtance of the Hen had been actuated by the treading of the
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            Cock.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1633" type="section" level="1" n="82">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head116" xml:space="preserve">Canon VI.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11949" xml:space="preserve">THe liveleſs Spirits are next Conſa
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            bſtantial to Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11950" xml:space="preserve">the vital Spirits approach more to the
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            ſubſtance of Flame.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11951" xml:space="preserve"/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1634" type="section" level="1" n="83">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head117" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11952" xml:space="preserve">THe Explication of the precedent fourth Canon is alſo a declaration of this preſent
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            Canon: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11953" xml:space="preserve">but yet further, from hence it is that all fat and oily things continue
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            long in their Being; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11954" xml:space="preserve">For neither doth the Air much pluck them, neither do they
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            much deſire to joyn themſelves with Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11955" xml:space="preserve">As for that conceit it is altogether vain,
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            That Flame ſhould be Air ſet on fire, ſeeing Flame and Air are no leſs heterogeneal
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            than Oil and Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11956" xml:space="preserve">But whereas it is ſaid in the Canon, that the vital ſpirits approach
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            more to the ſubſtance of Flame; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11957" xml:space="preserve">it muſt be underſtood, that they do this more than
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            the liveleſs spirits, not that they are more Flamy than Airy.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1635" type="section" level="1" n="84">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head118" xml:space="preserve">Canon VII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11959" xml:space="preserve">THe Spirit bath two Deſires; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11960" xml:space="preserve">one of multiplying it ſelf, the other of flying forth and
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            congregating it ſelf with the Connaturals.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11961" xml:space="preserve"/>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1636" type="section" level="1" n="85">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head119" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explication.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11962" xml:space="preserve">THe Canon is underſtood of the liveleſs spirits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11963" xml:space="preserve">for as for the ſecond Deſire, the
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            vital spirit doth moſt of all abhor flying forth of the body, for it finds no Con-
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            natural here below to joyn withal: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11964" xml:space="preserve">Perhaps it may ſometimes flie to the outward
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            parts of the body, to meet that which it loveth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11965" xml:space="preserve">but the flying forth, as I ſaid, it ab-
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            horreth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11966" xml:space="preserve">But in the liveleſs ſpirits each of theſe two Deſires holdeth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11967" xml:space="preserve">For to the for-
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            mer this belongeth, Every ſpirit ſeated among ſt the groſſer parts dwelleth unhappily; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11968" xml:space="preserve">and
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            therefore when it finds not a like unto it ſelf, it doth ſo much the more labour to cre-
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            ate and make a like, as being in a great ſolitude, and endeavour earneſtly to multiply it
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            ſelf, and to prey upon the volatile of the großer parts, that it may be encreaſed in quan-
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            tity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11969" xml:space="preserve">As for the ſecond Deſire of flying forth, and betaking it ſelf to the Air, it is cer-
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            tain that all light things (which are ever movable) do willingly go unto their likes near
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            unto them, as a Dröp of water is carried to a Drop, Flame to Flame: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11970" xml:space="preserve">but much more
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            this is done in the flying forth of ſpirit into the Air ambient, becauſe it is not carried
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            to a particle like unto it ſelf, but alſo as unto the Globe of the Cannaturals. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11971" xml:space="preserve">Mean-while
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            this is to be noted, That the going forth and flight of the ſpirit into air is a redoubled
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            action, partly out of the appetite of the ſpirit, partly out of the appetite of the air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11972" xml:space="preserve">for
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            the common air is a needy thing, and receiveth all things ſpeedily, as Spirits, Odours, B
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            eams,
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            Sounds, and the like.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1637" type="section" level="1" n="86">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head120" xml:space="preserve">Canon VIII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11974" xml:space="preserve">SPirit detained, if is
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            have no poſſibility of begetting new ſpirits, itenerateth the groſſer
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            parts.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1638" type="section" level="1" n="87">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head121" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Explicæ
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          tion.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11976" xml:space="preserve">GEneration of new Spirit is not accompliſhed but upon thoſe things which are in
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            ſome degree near to ſpirit, ſuch as are humid bodies. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11977" xml:space="preserve">And therefore if the groſſer
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            parts (amongſt which the Spirit converſeth) be in a remote degree, although the ſpirit
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            cannot convert them, yet (as much as it can) it weakneth, and ſoftneth, and ſubdueth
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            them, that ſeeing it cannot increaſe in quantity, yet it will d well more at large, and live
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            amongſt good neighbours and friends. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11978" xml:space="preserve">Now this Apheriſm is moſt uſeful to our
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            End, becauſe it tendeth to the Inteneration of the obſtinate parts by the detention of the
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            ſpirit.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1639" type="section" level="1" n="88">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head122" xml:space="preserve">Canon IX.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11980" xml:space="preserve">THe Inteneration of the harder parts cometh to good effect, when the Spirit neither fly-
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            eth forth, nor begetteth new Spirit.</s>
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