Book 6. Of the Soul in general.

caufe difcovers it felf by its effects, and che form by its operations, ~ Now the proper Ener-
y ofthe Soulis Life, which as the {econd act, is evermore attended upon, and companion to
the Soul asthe firft at. We may therefore from the diftinét manners ot Life confticuceche diftinct forts of fouls and animated thiags. Nowa mau lives,and o do other Creatures,and {odo Plants, buc each of thefe after a peculiar fafhion. The life of Plants confifts in Nue trition only, and the action proper to each one, but Planrs have no Sentes: che life of Brutes, befides Nucricion and acticn, contains allojenfe ,; andeach fore of Bruics hath its
Three di- ftinét forts of Souls,
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ties of the Soul differ
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roper action: Finally, Man befides al thiefe,does alfo underftand,and make ule of Reaifon.
There are rherefore three diftinét (orts of Souls: all which are in Matrer, and do confti- tutea living Body: Yer one of them is more loofe from the matter, buc another more plun- ged therein; and one can receive the {piricual and immacerial {pecies of things, wherein confifts the force of Knowledg, burfome cannot. Plants are nourifhed, and underftand no- thing; Bruit Animals can underftand {ome things; they receive immaterial {pecies, howbeic with fome conditions of the matcer : For whac things they perceive are bere preieor, andat thistime ; feeing Senfe is bufied about particulars. Buc che rational Soul receives immaterial {pecies or reprefencations of things, even without all conditions of maccers
And feeing the foul is the earl of various actions, and hath che power to perform fundry operations in living Creatures, we mult confider how the powers or faculties of the soul are related coche Soulitfelf. And here fome hold, thac che facuicies of che Soul are the very Effence thereof, which according to the fundry actions whereof it is che caufe, hath
and bow ? fundry names: others contrary wife do conceive chat the faculties and powers of che foul, as
whether in
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all others, are qualities of rhe fecond fort, and chat they are really and effencially different from the foul. And chislatcer Opinion is the better of che cwo. For the Powers and Fa- culties of che Soul are indeed only properties and infeparable accidents thereof, and effenti~ ally diftinét cherefrom. For che Soul isa fubftance, bur chefe are accidents or aptitudes and propenfions co operate; which flow from the eflence of the Soul, as their firft cawe, only by emanation, and fo depend thereon, and are received without ‘any medium, in the fame animated Body, wherein the Soulis. For every power is ranked amongft the fecond fort of Qualities: and feeing the Powers of che Sou! chemfelves are diftinét one from another, they muft alfo differ effencially from the Soul: For if they were che fame with it, they would be che fame one withanother, Howbeic, icis to be obferved, chat the faculties are not mediate Agents, or middle caufes betwixt the Soul and its operations, but only conditi- ons and apritudesto operate: For operations proceed from the Act, and noc from the po- wer; norisitnecefiary thacbecwixt every agenc andics Operation chere fhould intercede fome middle agent. For fo, neither could thac middle agent be the caule of action, with- out another middle agent: and fo there fhould a progre(ts adinfinitem, without end.
Thefe divers Souls are wich their facuicies fo dilpofed, thac the upper faculty does al- waies pre: {uppofe che lower: but the inferior may be without the tupertor. The Vege- rative is without the fenfitivein Plants: che Vegetative and Senfitive ace without the Rac- onalin Bruits: in Man all chreeconcur. But howche Faculties are diipofed im reference co the Soul in divers forts of Living Creatures, intricate and hard Queftious are agitated among{t Phylofophers.
For in the firft place Enquiry is made, Whether in every living thing there is oniy one yg Soul, or more. _, For fome ceach, Thac in every living Creacure there is only one Soul, and
ve chat icis furnifhed with all the faculcies of an inferior Soul; and chat chere arenoc in Man
three {ouls, an Locelligent, a Senfitive, anda Vegetative; but one thac is endued wirh che powers of allchree, and takes ics denomination from the nobler faculty: and that fo the faculties which are in living Creatures of the fame fort, do proceed from one forr of Soul; but chofe which are in living Creatures of a feveral{ort, do arile allofroma {everal force of Soul ; alchough both here and chere they have the fame names, and are actended by the fame operations. Oxhersdohold contrarilys Thac there are diftinct Souls, nog only in living things of feveral forcs 5 buc chat more alfo may be found in che fame living Creature 5 and thac in Man there is not only a nutritive and fenficive Faculty, buta nucrictive and fenfi- tive Soul, end alfoaracional; and chat where-ever the Faculty 12, chere is alfoche Soul, co which it primartly belongs. ;
_ Andalchough bo:h Opinions have learned and famous Defenders; yet the fi:ft which is ‘ ~ the commoneft and moft received, feems tome che more probable. For {ince there 1s one
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ther, and feveral forts of Souls can meet together, without uniting or confounding the Effences of things; or yet be {ubordinace one to another; feeing they are fuch oppotices as Logicians call Disparata, and do exclude one another out of the fame fubject. Moreover, ic isa needlefs thing comultiply fouls; fince one foul, furnifhed wich divers faculties may produce all che degrees of lite; and afoul-of an higher degree, and more noble, does include che faculties of the more ignoble and inferior; juft asche number Fourfincludes che number Three : nor is it neceflary, chough there are in the underftanding fubordinate conceptions, by reafon of fubordinate differences, that chere fhould cherefore be {ubordinate Forms, without the Underftanding. For che multiplicity of univerfal {ubordinate conceptions does not multiply the Effence and Form of a thing. :
Now the Principal Caufe chat. others have erred in this point, hath been this; That they chought che vegetative power alone co be a peculiar Soul, and co conftiture che fore of a Plane 3 and che fenficive Faculty alfoco bea peculiar Sou) which conftituced the fore of Animal: Whereas neverchelefs there are many forrs bothof Plants and Animals; and che Plants have different forts amongft chem,as alfo the Animalsyand there is one {peciftcal form ofa Rofe, anorher of a Violer, another of a Willaw; though che vegecacive Faculty be found in.ell of chem: one of aLyon, anocher of a Dog, another of a Wolf, although che fenfitive Faculty becommon call. All Plants have indeed a nucricive and.generative Fae culty, buc not chat only, bus wichal fomwhat proper, whereby a Violeg diftets from a Rofe anda Willow. Soa Wolfisnourifhed, does generate, and exercifes its fenles, but ir does not thefe chingsalone, bur it hath alfo fomwhat proper to ic felf, wher eby 1 differs from a Lyon and a Dog ; and fromthe fame foul in a Dog does flow the Faculty of nouri« fhing, of fenfe, and of doing chat which is proper to a Dog, whereby ic.differs from ocher Animals, Nov arethere in a Dog many and divers E{fences, as che Patrons of the other Opi- nion doerroneouily fuppofe. For neicher are the Vegetative and Senfitive, or the Vege-
a
- tative, Senficive, and Rational, certain peculiar general Forms, or three Effences ; but only
general conceptions, arifing, and conftituced out of the comparifon and conveniency of Lis ving things, which dono where exift feparately {ave in che mind 5 juft as Beeing, Subftance, Body: and therefore they do not multiply the Effence of things.
Atcer this Quefiion follows another: Whether the Soul be cotally in che whol Body, betber and corally inevery parc? or whether it be all inthe whol Body, and part of ic in one part, wpe: be But firft thac ambiguity whicb lurks in this Queftion, muft be dirice saar ftinpuiihed; For thetecm Whol, may here be confidered in a three-fold notion; in refpedt Bog
b PCCt Body, and The ficft is conftituced of che patts of che Soul in totally in the fame living Creature; the fecond of the Subjeét,according co the extenfion whereof cheevery parti
and part in another. of a Subftance, Quantity, and Quality.
Soulisexcended, foastohavequanticy ; che chird of the faculties, wherewich ig is furni- fhed. The School-mencall che firft, che Effential whol; che fecond, che Quantitative whol 3 chechird, che Poteftative whol.
Astocthe firft, Inafmuch as che foul of every thing is fimple, and not compounded of Effential patcs, where everic is, there it istotally, and foasthar ic is cotally in che whol Body. . For we mutt not allow of their Opinion, who hold, That the fubftance of che Soul is only in-one part of the Body, which ische principal part 5; and chat che reft of the Bedy is poverned by powers fhed out of che Soul: Forthus che whol Body fhould nor be animated; bur only chac part wherein the fubftance of the Soulis: For thofe Faculties whereby (ac- cording tocheir Opinion) che reft of che Members are governed, {ince they are accidents,can- potfupply theroom ofa fubftantial Form. Moreover, {ince che Faculties are accidents, flowing from the Effence of the Soul, only by way of emanation, they cannochave a fub- get differenc from their Form, nor be produced in any fubject, favechag wherein che Soul as 5 and therefore where they are, there we may know the effence of the Soul to be. And therefore we conclude chat che Effence of the Sou) is in all parts of the animated Body, and that no part is defticure thereof.
Yet isnot the Soul in its Body, in all animate things,afcer one and che fame manners. For in Plants and fome Animals, there is no principal Member, but inftead ofa principal Mem- ber, a certain humor is diffuled through the whol Body, by means of which, chiefly, the foul is joyned cothe Body : whence it is, thacal{o the pares being plucke fromthe Body do live for a feafon, there is tome principal Member, wherean the foul, as ina Root wherein it is naturally inbred
as iC were, may refide, and pourit felf out to the ocher Membevs.. And therefore chat prin= ‘i cipal Member being hurt, the Animal foon dies; but notifany otherbehurcs andthe Meme) ,
bers plucke fromthe Body, do prefently die.
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Secondly, If we enquire how the Soul is in the Body, in refpect of Extenfion and Quan- tity, che Anfwer is briefly chis: That every form which informs the matcer and is united thereto, and makes up one compound therewith, is extended according to che extenfion ofthe Matter. Concerning which ching it is neverthelefsto be obierved, tbac only Matrer as of it felf furnithed with Quantity, and divifible ; buc thac che Soul of ic felf is neicher fub- ject to Quanritity, nor co Divifion. Inthe mean while, becaufe tc informs the whol Body, at isrighcly faid to be coextended therewith, and hac where evet the body is chat lives, chere alfothe Soulis. Hence the Body is properly faid robe divided, and tobemade greater or lefler; and che Body ofa Plant, from a {mal T wig, grows toa call Tree, aCalf co an Ox 5 anda Body in a Confumption grows lefs, and fo doch a Tree whofe boughs are cut off. Bue it is not {o with the Soul; nor as thac Soul which is ina {mal branch, les inicfelf, thanthe Soul which is in atall Tree; nor isthe Soul of a Calf Jefs chan che Soulof an Ox, but re- maining the fame, it {preads it felf abroad iot o the additional nurtiment; nor isa Planc or Aninal che lefs by communicating ic felf in generation ; nor when the branches of a Tree are cut off, is che Soul of the Tree the leffer ; noc hath an Animal that is confumed a leffer Soul than chat which iscorpulent. For the Soul is joymed co the dimentions, partly as colors,
artly after another manner. For it informs che meafured quantitative Body, and its ple- nitude and fillingnefs is as great as che Body ic felf and the dimenficn thereof. Aud though we {uppofe the Body co encreafe never fomuck, che Soul without any addition wil filic al 5 and if ic be diminifhed never fo much, it wil filno more than chatliccle Body. OF it fel€ therefore rhe Soul hath no Quantity : but in refpect of dimenfions wheretoit is goyned, ic hath fucha property, that it fils no more chan the Body, be it great oF litcle. And though notwithftanding by accident its plenitude is reftrained and contained : yer is ic nortcut in jun- der or diminifhed. In which pareicular ic affords a certain refemblance of the moft good and great God, whoas 7. Cefar Scaliger {peaks, Reigns every where without place, is all with- out al], and che whol without pares.
Finally, Since divers and f{undry powers do flow fromthe Soul ; che Queftion is whether che Soul have all chefe powers cogether, inal the parts ofthe Body. Weanfwer: Thacin al the parcs of the Body, there are al the faculcies according tocheir Original ; and that the Soul brings al its faculties into al parts of the Body : yet peculiar faculeies are only received in peculiar parts as in their fubjects. For che Soul indeed is in al the parts, which is che O~ riginal of al che faculeies: yet fuch is the nature of proper accidents, chac ic extfts from a principle or certain caufe; yer they infift only ina cercain Subject. Hence Scaliger Bx- ercit. 103.f. 37. You fhal fee fomedoubt, whether Memory be in all parts of the Body. Nay tel thee, tbe Underftanding is inthe Feet. For we bave one Soulevery where at- tended with its faculties, as being effentialibereunto. Butwhere there are Inftruments, there the faculty exercifesits att. or if there were an Eye in the Finger, the Finger would fee by that Eye without calling any power or faculty from the Brain, For the Soul which is tlie fame in al parts of che Body, is indeed every where furnifhed with the fame faculties; and bath inal members the power to do whatloever is proper Co it 5 yet 1¢ per- forms certain actions by certain inftruments 5 ic fees by che Eye, hears by the Ears, {mels by the Noftrils.
ie is But becaufe we are fallen upon mention of the principal parr, and the foregoing Que- el rinci- pal part of the Body,
ftion can {carce be rightly refolved, wichout explication of che Controverfie concerning the principal member in man and orher fanguine Creatures, we muft not omit co handle che ame. Forit is one andthe fame Queftion, whichis the Seat of che Sou!, and which ts the principal member. For the principality is to be aflignedtothat member wherein the foul doth chiefly refide. Now thac chere is one principal member Phylofophers and Pay ficians agree, though they contend fharply which it is: and reafon perfwades thefame. For fince the foul isnot the form of an homogeneal body, but of a body herercgeneal and organicaly which hach many and different parts; chere mutt of neceflicy be fome order eftablifhed a- mongft them, and we muft beleeve that one of them is more worthy chan another: and {ince as hach been faid, che Hand, Foor, and other membersbeing cuc off, die prefently,
) sohe rett retaining life, we muft needs think that the Soul hath more affinity co one than ano~ ( ~ ether. © Buc what that principal member is, the Placonifts, co whom Galen and many Phy=
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avel was perte@, but above he wasdivided intotwo, had two breafts, cwo Heads with sar ager. heir partsand Sences. For {omtimes one part would eat, and che other would abftain, one € | would fleep, the other wake, fomtimes they would play cogether, laugh and weep, and beag pore another. Now they lived necr upon two years. Afterwards it felouc chat when one » ofthem died, che other chat remained alive died by reafon of the putrefaction communi=
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ofa perfect man, whohad only two Heads and ewo Shoulders, fochat one Heatl ftood be= hind the other, and chey were wonderfully like in favor, their Eyes and Beards were alike. ‘They had the fame appetice to meat, were hungry acthe fame cime, had she fame voyce, and both Heads had the famedefire to the Wife which he had, and coevacuations. From which Stories it is apparent, chat in che firft who hada double Heart, alithe Animal acti- ons were doubled, bux in che ocber, chough there were two Eleads, yet the actions were fin- gle, and chac therefore che Principality belongscothe Hearc. For if Senile, Motion, and other animal a@ions depend primarily on the Brain, and not on che Heart, why were chole aétions double only in the former, in whom befides che Brain there were cwo hearts; and not
in che laccer, in whom chere were only two Heads?
Chap. 2° Of the vegetative Soul.
|S ee fpoken thus much of the Soul in general, it remains now that we treat of thé forts of Soulss And becaufe the vegetative Soul is common co all living Greatures, we wil begin with the confidération thereof, Now the vegetative Soul isthe act or perfection The defi. of an organick body, whereby it lives, is nourifhed, encreafes, and begets ithike, Thereare nition of belonging co thisSoul three faculties: the nourifhing, growing, and ingendring faculty: the ie The nourtfhing faculty cends to preferve the Individual or parcicular-living ching; the tative [on growing faculcy cends co encceafe che Quantity thereof ; the Generative preferves the kind
The thee age eae ; : h ‘culites Ox fort. Forthe nucritive or nourifhing faculty 1s chat which turns che food into che fub=
thereof. ftance of the living Body. For fince the parts ofa living Body are confumed by che @ative The an- heat, ( jeft if there fhould bea continued refolution, the Creature fhould perifh }the nouri- aA {4 thing faculty was beftowed chereupon, to repair that which isconfumed. Now this Inter- cult}. chanoeof re(olution and nutrition, lafts as long as the life: for a living Greature # nouri-
feed as long it lives. Ariftot. 1. de Gen. et Corrup. cape 5.t. 41- Now co Nutrition three things are neceflary, as Aviftotle teaches 2. de Anim. cap. 4. t.49/ Ihe thing nourifbed, that roberewith it is nourifhed, and thar which doth nourifh: now that which nourifhes is primarily tbe Soul, that which i nourifbed ws the Body which contains it; tbat voberewith it i nourifbed, is thefood. . Now Zabarella hath thus exprefied che whol nature of nutrition, in Lib, de Accret @ nutrit, cap. ult. Nutrition is che apgeneracion of matter tothe parts in a living Body, caufed by the vegetative foul through help of nacural heat, out of the food which is taken in chat the matcer which 1s feamed away may be reftored, and that the living Creature may be preferved, to the end of che cerm appoinced by natute. Scaliger thus briefly defines ic: Nutrition isa natural union of the
changed food,
Four fa-. The Principal faculties have other faculties jabferer fcom the Frincipal. For one faculty doth not poffefs another: but chey al depend upon, ont to tee ad proceed immediately fromthe Soul, Thenutricive faculty bath four faculcies fub-
hereunto; the Attractive, Retenuve, Concottive,and Expulfive: others add che
nutritive. fervaent t Separacive, which fevers chings hureful. The Attractive, is chac which draws che food 3
the Retenriveis that which retains it, tilic be duly elaborated 5 the Concoctive, 1s that
which alcecs it and makes ic fit for the living Body : the Expulfive, ischac which drives out
a {uperfluous matter, which is unfit for nourifhment. ; bie 8 Now in che ficft age, not only nutrition 1s made, but alfo augmentation, and the parts faculty which are added co the living Creature are greater chan thofe thac areconiumed by the na- Now Augmentatation or Growth, according to che definitton of Zabarella dé
The defi ural heat. nition of accret. & nutrit. cap. 25 isthe motion of a living Body, whereby the whol tbody and al
angmenta the parcsate at once extended according toa} dimenfions, foas to pain a greater quantity 9 hrough affiftance of rhe natural heat from the food caken ing
re, caufed by the Vegecative Soul tf and converted-into parcs of the fubftauce ofthe Body, greater than what hath been confu-
med ; thatthe living Greatuce may atcain co that erearnefs which ic ought cohave, chat « «> may perform al the operations of Life. For Acccetion or Growth differs not from Nuccich
{ubfervient co them, which yet do not arife
\ on in che fubieét chereof, matter out of which it 1s made, and the Efficient Caufe. For rhe)
fainé fubject ische living Body 5 the Matter out of which, the Food; the Efficient, the
Pa Soul: but chey differ in their form and End, Cm For Nucrition istheag-generacion of aliment, and bel
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Chap. 2.
body and allirs parts. The End alfois different: For in Nutrition there js only che re- ftauration of whats confumed 5 in growth there is an acquificicn of more than is confumed, Hence Ariffotle, 1. de Generat. (cor. cap. §.text. 14. Nutrition is the fame thing with Accretionor Growth; but they differ re{pettively : For inafinuch as that which is joyned to the Body, potentially fo much ficfhs it is able to encreaje the body: but inafmuch as.it is potentially bare flefh, fofar it i able to nourifh:
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