Part XL

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“ void of Qualities, Vacuum is a region or fpace in which all thefe bodies are carried upwards and downwards everlaftingly,orare intangled within one another, or hit againfl: one ano- ther, or rebound, or feparate from, or aflb- ciate with one another, whereby they make " all compounds, and efpecially our bodies , and their paffions and fenfes. Hitherto Galen. ; Democritus ( i) alone, contrary to the reft of
gin. 1.7. the r^iiiofophers, Afferted, that the Agent and the Patient muft be the fame and like ; for he conceived it not to be poffible, that things differ¬ ent and divers can fuffer from one another; and if any different things ad upon one another, this happens to them not as being different, but as they have fomething in them that is the fame, k Ari^ de Broad (,k ) iron fwims on the Water, be- aek.^.C. caufe the atoms of heat, which afcend out of the Water, uphold the broad atoms even of things that are weighty ; but the narrow hide dowm, becaufe thefe which refift them are but few. But . then, objeds he, This will be done much more in the Air; whereto he Anfwcrs, that the Soun is not carried one way, meaning by Soun the motion of bodies afcending. lArifi. de Things ( I ) become liquid or concrete,' by gen. & cor. convcrfion, or contadion.