Part XL

D EMOC K ITV S.
b AriJ}. de gen. ani- 5. I. c Perhaps reading
d Pint, flac. 5. 16.
SECT. vir.
of I he generation of living Creatures.
aCenfer.de T\ /T E N (a) were fir/1 generated of water dtenat.^. andmud; from v/hich opinion £we«r«r.
lurle differs.
( b ) The difiindion of fexes, Male and Fe¬ male, is made (c) in the womb, notbyreafon of heat or cold, but according to that party of the Two, whofe feed proceeding from the part which di/linguilheth Male and Female, is pre¬ dominant ; or of that party whofe feed firft takes up the place.
(d) The Infant in the womb is nouri/hed at the mouth, wherefore affoon as it is born, it layeth the mouth to the dug.
SECT. VIII.
Of the Soul.
DEmccritm {a) held. That the Soul is a kind of Fire and Heat; (b) fbr there being in¬ finite Figures of Atoms, he faith, the round make Fire, and the Soul, becaufe that figure is moft capable to permeate through the Univerfe; and to move the reft , the foul it felf being moved alfo. Thus he and Leucippus held the Soul to be that which giveth motion to living Creatures. Hence it comes to pafs, that refpiration is the bound of Life, for when that which encompaf- feth the Bodies, com prefleth them, andfqueezeth out thofe Figures which give motion to living Creatures, forafmuch as they never reft, there is a relief by the coming in of others of the dme kind through Refpiration ; for this hinders thofe which are in the Animals from being fqueezed out, they driving forward together that which compre/Teth andfaftnech. All Animals breathe, and they'] live as long as they can do thus.
( d ) The Soul is corruptible, and periftieth with the Body.
( e) The Soul hath Two parts; the rational, feated in the Bread; the irrational, diffufed through the whole Body; but ( f) the Soul and Mind are all one.
( g ) There are more than five Senfes of irra¬ tional Animals, God and Wife Men. • i h) Senfation and Intelletftion are made by the infinuation of Images from without, which flow from folid Bodies and certain Figures. ( i) So the Image in a Looking-glafs is made alfo.
^ He conceived, as /iriftotle faith, that all Sen- fibles are Tangibles, that all Senfation is caufed by a touch or ftroke upon the Organ; and further affiimed, that h'hitenefs is JmoothneJs, the Light being reflected from a fmooth Superficies upon the Eye, exhibits a white colour.] (1) Black- nejs IS Rougbnef- [the fame light reflecled from
a rough Superficies, exhibits Blacknefs ;] in like
manner ftw) He referred Sapours to Figure'^ (»') the round Atoms, and fuch as are of a bulk fuirable [ to the contexture of the Organ ] make a/wf Sapor ; the great, z (oiver ; the Multangulous and Nothing round, a harjh; the Acute, Conical, Crooked, not flender nor round, a Jharp^ the Round, /lender, anguious, crooked, an acrimoni¬ ous ; the Anguious diftorted equicrural, a Salt ;
a jdrifi. de anima 1,2. b Perhaps reading direifav oj'tsu' ^(/.ctTav ^ Ali- feav.
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