PART Xlil.

Female alio, feeing that Ihe likewife emitteth, or Tefticles, though placed in a ‘contrary way , and therefore is flie defirous of Coition. ■
And this indeed feems neceflary to be granted towards giving the Reafon, why a Male or Fe¬ male 'is formed i for nothing can be alledged mote proper t^n this, that whereas the young. One xon'fifts‘of the Seeds, both of its Sire and Dam, if that oT the Sire predomlnate,it proves Male^ if that 6f the Dam, Female.
Hence alfo.may be given a caufe of the refem- blance which it hath to either, or both its Pa¬ rents \ for if the Fenialewith a fudden force at- trafts, and fnatcheth away the Seed of the Male, then the young One becometh like the Dam j if both alike; it "becometh like both, but mixtly.
If you demand, Why Children arc fomtimes like their Grandfathers, or Great Grandfathers ? The Reafon feems to be this *, the Seed is made up of many little Bulks, which are not always all of them dillblved into Atoms, or neareft to Atoms, in the firft or next Generations, but at length in fome one of the following Generations, they unfold themfelves in fuch manner, as that, what they might have done in the Immediate, they exbibite only in the Remote, .
But' whence comes Bartennefs? From' the' Seed’s being either thinner than it ought, fo as it cannot fallen one the place ^ or thicker, fo as it cannot eafily be commixed : For there is re- quifite a due proportion betwixt the Seeds of the M&le, and of the Female *, whence it happens, that many times the fame Man or Woman Who are incapable of having Children by one, inay yet have them by another. I omit other Rcafons, as from the Aliment, fince it is manifell, that Aliment,by which Seed is increafed,difFers from that whereby it is attenuated atnd wafted.
CHAP. VIII.
Of the ufe of Parts in Animals.
HEnce follows, That the parts of Animals were not from the very beginning of things ' framed, after the falhion they have now,for thofe ends and ufes whereto we fee them now ferve, ( for there was no caufe to forefee this end, nor any things precedent to which that caufe attend¬ ing, and thence taking a conjectural aim might delign any fuch falhion, ) but becaufe it hap- ned that the parts were made, and did exift as we now fee them ; therefore they came to be ap¬ plied to thefe ufes rather than to others, and be¬ ing firft made, themfelves became afterwards the occafion of their own ufefulnefs, and infinuated the knowledge of it into the minds of the lifers.
The Eyes therefore were not made to fee,nor the Ears to here, nor the Tongue to fpeak, nbf the Hands to work, nor the Feet to go, for all thefe Members were made before there was See¬ ing, Hearing, Speaking, Working, Going ; but thefe became their Fundions after they had been made^
_ For the Soul being formed together with and within the Body, and moreover being capable of Senfe, the Eye hapned to be made of fuch a
Cotexture, that the Soul, being applied unto it, could not but produce the fenfitive act of See¬ ing ; and the Ear of fuch, as that being joined to it, it could not but produce Hearing; and there being within the Body, made together with it, an Animal Spirit capable to impel and move, the Tongue hapned to be framed after fuch a Contexture, as that this Spirit coming to ir, could not but move it, and break the Air ( which at the fame time it breathed forth, ) in¬ to words. In like manner, the Hands,the Feet, and the reft of the Limbs were fo faftiioned, as that this Spirit rulhing into them could not but give this .motion to one, and that to the o- ther. , '
! As for the Tendons, which are plainly the Organs, by which the Parts are ftjrred, it is evi¬ dent that the Aiftions are not ftrong, becaufe thefe are big ; nor remifs,becaure they are fmall ; but the Adions are fuch or fuch; according to the occafions of frequent or ieldom ufing them : But the bignefs of the Tendons follows the quan¬ tity of the Motion, fo that thofe which are ex- ercifed are in good plight, and grow convenient¬ ly bigger, thofe which lie idle thrive not, but wafte away.
Wherefore the Tendons were not fo formed by Nature, as if it were better, that they (hould by ftrong.a.nd big for the difeharge of vehement Fundions; weak and llender for the weaker, ( foiTwe fee even Apes have Fingers falhioned 'like ours, ) but, as was faid before, thofe which are exercifed, mull of necelfity be big, becaufe they are well nourilhed ; and thofe which are not exercifed, fmall, becaufe they are lefs nou¬ rilhed.
For Confirmation hereof may be alledged, that moft Parts are fomtimes direded to thofe ufes for which no Man will fay they were de- lign’d ; and this, when either Necelfity or Occa- lion, or fome Conjedure taken elfewhere, lays them open to us. Men would not fo much as dream of fighting with Weappns, if they had not firft fought with their Hands ; nor of hold¬ ing Shields before them, if they had not firft felt Wounds that were to be avoided ; nor of ma¬ king foft Beds, if they bad not firft llept on the Ground ; nor of making Cups, if they had not drunkWater firft out of their Hands ; nor of ma¬ king Houfes, if they had not been acquainted with the ufe of Caves ; And fo of the reft.
C H H P. IX.
Of the Soul^ the intrinfecal Form of Animals.
LE T us' now come tc) the Soul,by which Ani¬ mals are, and from it have their denomi¬ nation, In the firft place we mull conceive it to be Corporeal, fome moft tenuious or fubtle So- dy^ made up of moft fubtle Particles. Doubtlefs th^ who affrm it is Incorporeal^ befides that they ahufe the H^ord^ play the fools exceedingly ; For, except it were fuch, it could neither ad nor fuf- fer ; it could not ad, for it could not touch any thing ; it could not fuffer, for it could not be touch’d by any thing, but would be ai a meer Ea- cuity.^ which , asl faid before, if fuch that it can neither all nor fuff er any thing ^but only affords d free mbtion to Bodies pajftng thorow it. Now
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