PART XIII

EPICURUS.
a Cloud or mift creeps thorough the Air, and by little and little, changeth and difturbeth it all along as it goeth. . ,
Not to mention,that when men by breathing, draw the Air into their Bodies, they fuck in at the fame time,thc little Bodies of this affedion ; wh^'ewith,thofe which are like them in the Bo¬ dy are tranfpofed, and perverted in the fame manner, as we faid of the Air and by contagi¬ ous afflation,thcy are tranfmitted onto others, which cauie the fame perverfion, whereby the difeafe fpreads every yvherc.
Thus much concerning not Meteorology on¬ ly, but all Phyfiology : Of which the few things that we have faid are fuch, as that by contem¬ plating them,we may throughly underftand the things that are done, whereby the things that are of affinity withthem,raay be comprehended*, and the caufes of particular efFefts in Nature, known. For they, who perfue not thefe with all poffible diligence, are far from underftanding
them, as they ought, and from obtaining the endi for which thofe are to be underftood.
And never muft we call; out of Mind the Cri- teries, ( nor the evidence that belongs to every one of them, ) becaufe, if we forfake not thefe, we lhall with right reafon find out from whence perturbation arifeth,and what it is that caufeth fear, and fhall quit outfelve's from it, underftand¬ ing the caufe of fuperiour things, and of ail others which ordinarily happen, ahdftiikc great fear into others.
But, prefuppofing the Criteries,it avails moft to apply ourfelves to fpecdlation of the Princi¬ ples, of which all things confift, and of the in¬ finity of Nature,and other things coherent with thefe, and with conftant remembrance to pre- ferve the chiefeft and moft general Maxims con¬ cerning them. For by this means, we ftiall be fartheft ofFFroraFables,and obtain that undiftur- bed ftate of mind, which is the true and only mark, at which, in all this difeourfe, we have aimed
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