PART Xill.

ralPerfons, it ough not to feem Arrange, that fome Scents pleafe Some ^ Others, Others •, by reafon ot the diffi militudes of the Figures of the little Bodies, of which they confift ^ nor that Bees delight in Flowers, Vultures in Carrion j or that Dogs find out by the Scent which way Beafts have gone, which we cannot perceive ^ as if in paffing, they left a Steam which cannot ftrike our Smell.
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CHAP. XV.
Of Tajling.
E come next to fpeak of Tailing Whereas it is manifeft, that the Organ *Lucret. thereof is the Tongue and Palate*, and that * we then tafte and perceive the Sapor in our mouth, when chewing the Meat,we fqueeze out the Juice ( as when we prefs with the Hand a Sponge full of Water) and thereupon, the Juice which is fqueezed forth, is diftributed thorough the Pores, or complicated Holes of the Tongue and Palate, we may in general alFert the Sapor to be fweet,the little Bodies whereof are accom¬ modated to the Organjgently and fmoothiy *, on the contrary, |that to be Bitter, Salt, Sharp, Acid, Sower, Hot, &c. which roughly and un- fuitably. For neither could Hony or Milk af- feft the Tongue pleafantly, nor Wormwood or Centory unpleaiantly, if it were not that thofe confift of fmoother and rounder little Bodies, thefe of more harfh and . hooked ; fo as thofe touch it gently, thefe prick and rend it. rs at frnr therefore not defines the thing amifs, who CTenf. ■ faith, Thatthe Atoms, which make a fweetSa- por,arc round,and of a convenient fize ; Thofe which a fower , large ^ Thofe which a harfti, multangular, and nothing round *, Thofe which a iharp, acute, conical, crooked, not flender , nor round; Thofe which an acid, round, flen¬ der, corner’d, crooked *, Thofe which a fait,
• corner’d, diftorted, jequicruralj Thofe which • a bitter, round, fmooth,diftorted, little ; Thofe which a fat, flender,’ round, little. lucret But, more particularly, feeing that the tem¬
pers, not only of Animals, but even of Men among themfelves, are fo various, and that as they differ in the outward lineaments of their Bodies, fo they caqnot but differ alfo in their in¬ ward Contextures, hence we may fay, that the Sapors, that are pleafing to fome Animals or Men, are difpleafing to others, by reafon that the little Bodies, of which they confift, are fui- table, and accommodated to the Contexture of the Organs of thofe, but unfuitable and unac¬ commodate to the Contexture of the Organs of thefe ; fince the round Pores, that in the Or¬ gan, can receive the round Atomes fmoothiy, bat the triangular difficultly ; and the triangu¬ lar Pores can receive the triangular fmoothiy, but the round difficultly.
Hereby alfo is underftood, how it comes to pafSjthat the things which were formerly plea- fant to us , are in a Fever diftafteful, for the texture is fodiforder’d, and the Figures of the Pores fo alter’d, that the Figures of the little Bodies which infinuate into them, though for¬ merly they were adaptable, now become unfui- table and incongruous.
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From the fame Reafon it is, that the Meat which agreeth with one Animal, is Poifon to an- lOl. other ; as Hemlock, or Hellebore, is deftrudlivc to a Man, yet it fattens Goats, and Quails.
Tnis happens, by reafon of the interior Con- texture^jwhich diff’ering from one another, that which is accommodate, and adaptable to one is inadaptable to another. ’
CHAP. XVI,
Of Touching.
L Aftly, Concerning theToMcfe,! mean not that lucrtu which is common to all Bodies, as they are laid to touch one another by their Superficies^
( contrary to the Nature of which can
neither touch, nor be touched, ) but that which is proper to Animals, not performed without perception of the Soul; and hath not one, but all parts of the Body for its Organ. .Concern¬ ing this Touchy I {ball only declare, that wiiat is perceived by it, is perceived three ways;
For firft, A thing is perceived by the Touchy when it is extrinfecally applied, or, from with¬ out infinuates hfelf applied, as when the Hand feels a Stone clapp’d to it ; infinuated, as when a hot thing emitting Heat,or a cold thing Cold, certain little Bodies get into the Pores, which, according to the ftate wherein the Body is, ei¬ ther refreffi or difturb it.
Secondly, When a thing which is within, is driven out, which fomtimes happens with Plea- fure, efpecially when the thing itfelf was bur- thenfom and incommodious, utdum femen excer^ nitur ; fomtimes with Pain, as when by reafon of the angles of the little Bodies, it excoriates the Paffiage, as by the Strangury, or Difficulty of Urine.
Laftly, When fome things within the Body take fome of thefe morions,3S by Impulfion, Di- duftion, Diftrafton, Convulfion, Compunttion, Rafure, Excoriation, Inflation, Tenfion, Break¬ ing, and imnumerable other ways, it difturbs the Natural Conftjtutionjand confounds and trou¬ bles the Senfes. Thus all Aches and Pains of the Head, and other parts within, are caufed; and the Animal doth in fuch manner affed k- feif, as if a Man (hould with his own hand ftrike a part of his Body.
CHAP. XVII.
Of the JnteUeS.^ Mind, or Reafon, and its Seat.
Hitherto of the Senfe. We muft now fpeak oixhtInteUell, which is alfo ufually cal¬ led, Reafon. The Rational and Hege- monick part; fomtimes Cogitation, Imagina¬ tion, Opinion, Counfel : Its property is, wheti the Senfe ftrikes it, to think, apprehend, under- ftand, revolve, meditate, difeourfe, or delibe¬ rate fomthlng.
The Contexture of t.be InteUeli confifts of lit¬ tle Bodies, the moft fubtle, fmooth and round of all,forafmuch as nothing can be more fubtle,noi* of quicker motion. Neither is there any thing that can ftir up itfelf fooner, or perform any
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