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vifible poinc, nor can ic be remitted, fince remiffion is made by mixture ofacontrary, nor is it poffible chat the form fhould firft have a generical Nature, and receivethe {pecifical diffe- rence from the Efficienr. And whereas Licetus denies thofe axiomes owned bya! Philofo- phers, and {aies they hold crue only in compound fubftances, bur not in fimple; this he does without Reafon. For fince compound tubftances become fuch by reafon of che fimple of which they confift, if che fimple fubftances, matcer, and form, may be remitted, alfo the compound might be remicced 5 and fince che form gives being ta che ching by reafon of the form che compound allo fhouid be more cr lefstuch, Nor does Licetus agree with bimfelf in this point, fince in che fame Book, chap. 2. he writes, Thac thoie chings which are faid co breed of themfelves arenot made by anextecnal Agent, but by an Agent which lies hid in the miatter of the chingto be made, which does not generate a new form different from it felf, but exhibits it elf chereto for anew form, that isto fay, communicates it felf.. Noris there inthe Soul (which isa moft fimple Effence) any compofition of fundry Effentia] parts, and infuchamaoner, chat lhkea Genus ic mighe be prefent without a {pecifical difference. The Soul is one moft fimple Effence, only turnifhed with fundry faculaes. Nor can he fhew how that remiflionismade. -For whereas Licetus {aies, hat only anaccidental remiffion or abatenienc is made by che mixture ofacontrary, but.not an effential, fuch as he bolds to be in forms, 1s.aflerted without any reafon; and it lies him in hand co prove, That (as he feipns) an efféntial remiflion may be made without admixture of acontrary. And which way foever be curns himfelf he fals into abfurdicies, and contradicts himfelf. For when he fates that that fanie rudiment of a form 1s no (rue form, buc the generical Nature thereof, and that che kinds bavean Effence really difting from their forts, he confounds Lopical Conceptions with
Vig che Nature ic felfof rbings, or the Logical kind with the Nacura]. For the Logical kind is in the mind, and is by che mind abftracted from the forts; bucche Phyfical Genus fignifies a
Logical & } : a ‘Natural common nature, which confifts in the chings themfelves out of the Mind,
kind,
And che Logical kind indeed may by the mind be feparated from che forts; bucthe Phyfical kind does not exift in Nature, fave in its forts, nor does the Animal exift any where fave ina Man,a Lyon, a Horfe, 8c. ~And cherefore ic isa vain figment co fay that che Genertca) Nature ts che Ru- diment of the Form, and asic were half the Form. And from this very Opinion it would follow, that like does not engender its like. For fince che {pecifical Form gives to every ching its Nacure, but not the Generical 5 if the Generator fhould only afford the matter erein che Generieal form is, or a rudiment of che Form, or an half form, as Licetus {peaks ; che @xternal agent as Heat fhould introduce the {pecifick difference ; not che Genera=
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cor which might die in the mean time before the external agent come fhould be the Parent.
and Author of the ching generated, bur che external Agent 5 and that not univocal, bur equi- vocal... Alfo I wonder a man fo exceeding learned fhould defend this Doctrine of the Edu- tion of Forms, fince he hath no need chereofto explain his Opinion, as holding in 1. de fonte vivent. ortu, cap.125. That the feed isanimated, and Lib.4.cap. 32. that it is an amperfact Animal: and be bolds chat fuch things as are faid co be generated of their own ac~ cord donor proceed from anexternal Agent, but from an Agent that lies bid within the matter, as was lately faid.
But which way foever they turn chemfelves, the matter comes to the fame pafs, chat they are fainco confefs, that befides che di{pofition of the matter there 1s fom what formal in che Seed, the caufe of ation, and chat befides che difpoficion of the macrer chere needs fomwhat elfe by which the thing may be brought into its perfect act. And that power of which they {peak they are forced at laft co explainto be meancnot of a paflive power, bus an attive, which makes chat that which is in che firft aét cometo be in the fecond act,or in an ack fimply; fo that thac Soul which was deftitute of Inftrumenrs to operate by is now furnifhed there- with, fochat ic is able to operate. Which very thing alfo Ariftotle caught; when in
7. Metapbyf.cap.9, tit. 31. he writes: The Seed bath the Form potentially in it felf,
which after afort bath the {ame uame with that from whenceit came. And 2. deGenerat. Cap. 1» Its all one whetber you name the Seed, or that from whence it came, For theSam of the-bufinefs is, @hac chac Power which Ariftotle {peaks of 1s formal, as later Writers
whether pbraze ic, and differs not from che firft ad.
the Edu- étion of the
A certain late Writer (whofe Underftanding is capable of nothing buc what is Elementary)
Form oup when he faw he could not defend the Eduction of Forms out of the power of the Matter by of the ap- any Philofophical reafon, at laft he flies coche Authority of the Holy Scriptures. But he
titude of
endeavors to introduce his own mind and’ pre-conceived Opinion into the holy Scriptures,
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and Beafts were then by God produced, and do atchis day arife from the Elemenrary mat- ter, And thus therefore he explamsic, chat the ipecifical Forms arenot made of the Ele= ments, inafmuch as they are the matter of the mixtion, and the convement fubjects of Forms; or chac they are net made by mixture and compofition of che Elements, bur chac the Elements concur to the genetation of corrupcible things as they contain an univerfal matcer fo affected, under che matters of the Elements, chatout of the apritude thereof as ouc of arich and unexhauftible Treafuce mighc bedrawn and propagated ro the end of the World chetforcs of al things, fuch and fo many as the moft good and great God would have troexiut for che accomplifhment and ornament of chis lower World. For fince the Ele- ments contain no matter but che firlt, he muft.needs by chac univerfal matter underftand che firfé matcer. Sut who I pray you, either Philofopher or Divine, did ever fo ceach concer= ning che ficft Matcer, e{pecially beige confidered without the Forms of cheElements? Did Arifiotle Cwhole Opinion he conceives this of the Eduction of Forms to be) know any ching of thac Divine Benediction given at the firft Creation? And where do we read (I pray you) inthe Scripruces chat God fo bleffed chac Univerfal Matter? This indeed we read in che firft of Genefir, Thar God once commanded chat che Earch and Waters thould bring forth Animals creaied by bim 5 and when chey being created by God were come out of the
Earch and Wate like a Child out of che Womb, as Francifews Funius {peaks in his Ex-
plication, we do not read Chat God again commanded that che Barch and Water fhould pro-
duce Plants and Animals, and chat he blefied chem co thac intent; buc thus we read,
That rhe Earci broughe forth the green Herb bearing Seed, and the Tree beating Fruit,
and each ching having {eed according toits kind; andthar God bleffed the Fithes and Birds
being creaced, taying 3 Encreafeand multiply, and fil che Waters of the Sea, and let Birds
multiply upen the Barch. :
Chap. 5. Of the Formative Principle, and the feparated Ins Jirament. ! te
V VY Hen other more folid Peripacecicks {aw chefe difficulties and encombrances of this
Opinion, chey held chat che Soul indeed it felt did proceed from che Generacor, bur nocammediacely, Andtherefore they denied thac che Soul was in the Seed ; yee they taughe chat Chere was a vercue cherein communicated from the Generacor, from whence came bo:h che forming of che Body and the Sout of che ching generated. Of chis Opinion
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was Albertus ‘Magnus, who taught thac the Generator does indeed communicate Seed, but "2"
not theSou! wih theseed, but chat ic only givesa vertue to che feed, by means of which
Albertus Magnus.
C:haugh the Generator be dead) the Seed gives a Soul to the thing generated, fo chat che feed Concerning which hach not che Soul in it does, yer generate a living and animated thing, not of ic felf, the forma-
Buc in che vectue of che Generator. are moved not by chemielves, but by the force imprimted. by the Thrower, alchough the Thrower and ching thrown ate no longer cogether 3 and by the Hammer an artificial thing is made, not by tts own faculty, buc that of himchac works with ic: fo by che Soul-lefs
Seed a thing with a Soul 1s-generated by a vercue imprinted therein by the Genera- COre
For as we fee in the motion of things hurled, chag they roi
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That moft jearned Philofopher Jacobus Schegkius feems to be almoft of the fame Opi- The Opi
nion, whe in Libi1. de Plaft. fem. facultat.
andteachesy Uhat he thereby underftandsa fubftantial F orm, which could be perceived by
attributes a Formative Principle to the Seed, ee, of acoou
no fenfe, but by che mindandunderftanding. Howhbeit, be holds that che Seed and this fub- °'°®*"™
ftanteal Form are not principal but inftcumental Agents, and form the animated Bodies like the Hand of an Actificer. He faies, That itis a fubftancial Att, feparable from che fubftance of the firft Act, which bath for its proper fibject the Spermatical flumor. And again,chat the Seed is an Inftrumental Caufe, and a certain efficient Principle, but not an efficient Material, making or generating the animated Body, andnot being ic felfanimaced, buc a Medium in- terpoled berwixt that which is animated and thac which isto be animated, without che infor- mation, of any matter able to effect as a certain {econd act or energie. But unlefs the Opinion of Schegkins be foexplained, chat this Formative Principle is she Soul ir felf by which the Seed is animated,and the Seed of fuch or fuch aCrearute > and that the Formative Power isa proper adjunct ofthe Soul, which ic hath when it is in che Seed, and exercifes the fame when an Animal is generated 3 but inafmuch as there is not in the Seed actually an Oc- ganical Body which che Soul may inform, in chae re{pect the Form may be {aid co be ab=
fent: 3
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ied che Soul? And feeing the Soul. to che Seed is fufficient to perform al thefe operarions which are aceributed ro the formative Principle, why fhould we hold thar ro be any other thanthe Soul? Asd Ariftotle himfelt de generat. Animal. cap. 1. names this Principlea part of che Animal, which is forthwith in the Seed. And cherefore we need not hold a For- mative Principle asir were afecond act ofanother ficft act, and the Vicar as ic were ofthe Generator in che Seed, which when'the motion of Generation is ceafed, it felf ceafes, “For _ to bold that that which made eitber all or fome parts of the Body is perifbed, is an abjurd “hi Op thing. The fame Opinion (ina manner) Antonius Ponce Santtacrug, che King of Spain’s Seda, Lbyfitian, holds, in opere{upra primam’ 1. Canon. Avicenna, & de Hippoc. Phi lofophia, cruz cope asheis cited by Pienys-in his Apology. For he holdsthe Seed co be only am Inftrument. cerning tbe Bur when he eafily perceived many ablurdities would follaw if theSeed fhould be counted Jottu- © fimply asan Inftrument, he diftinguifhes betwixe an Inftcament conjoyned and {eparate. datas ~ And he conceives that the neceflity of this diftindtion istaken from che diverfiry of the pecfe- esBrAWUD, On of Agents, andthe Nature of rhe Order of chings, For fome operate with a Medium and withour a Medium as diving things 5 others of an inferior Rank have noe fo great perfe- étion, and they work by chemfelves. He cels us therefore chat feparate Inftruments do work by a permanent Vertue which they haye received fromthe Agent; bur che conjoyned Laftruments do tucceflively receive the Vertue ofthe Agent, and sherefore operate with de- pendance upon che fiift principal Agenr. Heexplains che Nature of a feparate Inftcument by an Example polwical. - Fora King or fome Potentate operates in far diftane places as if he were prefent, by power derived from bimfelf, which he confers upon che Laws and Jud- ges: bur privacemen chat jive only for chemfelves muft operate by themfelves. He brings afterward another example whereby he would prove his Opinion, viz» Of Watches,Clocks, and Engines wherein many Wheels are orderly moved tn the abfence of the Workman, yet by a vercue imprinted upon them by the firft dicection of the Artift.. The Nature of con- joyned Inftcumencs he explains by the fimilitude ofa Saw, which lying ftil hachfuch a dif- poficion that i¢may receive motion in order cocutting 5 yet is it not an acting Inftrumenceil it receive guidance Comotion and cutting from the Sawyere ‘Fhatchere’ts a feparate In- tiumenche alia. proves by the motion of hurling, Fora ftone hurled wil fly, though the thrower fhould prefently fal downdead. And {fohe holds ig is jn the matter of Seed, how that Anitials Generate cheir Seed being caft out of chem, a derivative vertue concinually re- mawing-cherein, thac it cao work, and does a€tually work withourany actual Influx from ER tines Generator. ; ei hian refuge DUE this Opinion however explained and palliared is falfe and far from truth. For red. | Aviftotle himtelf, 7. Metaphyf. ¢. 9st. 3°. reckons che Seed amongfi univocal Agents. But al uaivocal Agents are not inftrumental bit:principa) Caufes, Again, al Inficuments pro~ perly fo called are joyned with the principal Agent, ‘and as Scheghivs himielf {peaks, an Inftrument of it felf hath no Efficacy, bue only by the Ufe of che Principal
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aine power, yea, and che fame Soul which the Generator itfelf hath. But while he denice the Soul to be if the Seed, be labors in vain when he cals the Seed'a feparace Inftrument. Kor
alshough while an Inftrument is nor imployed it may be really feparated from che principal.
Agent, asa Pencil froma Painter, an Ax from a Carpenter, a Pen froma Writer: yet no Toftrument can be named which in the ation it felf operates by a power within 1¢ felf ( for fo ic fhould be a principal Agenc, not an Inftrumental) bucevery Toftrument in its operata- on hath no power of it felf, bucic depends upon, and is directed in ics action by the Princi- pal Agent, and when it is feparaced ic can no Songer work by 1 felf.
The fff Wemuft therefore diftinguith betwixe the firft andfecond act of an Inftrument. That ce fecond any thing may be an Inftrument in che firfe adt, itis fuflicient that ic be fhaped and ficsed as Ai of @t'ary Inftcument for fome patticulat action, Ab Iron Hammer in regard of its hardnels, heae Tnjirament vinefs, and faape, isan Loftrument ficco beat Gold and other Merals, and co figure and form
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wil never of i: {elf beac ourany metal,buc che prefence and motiun of the Artifice is neceffary to dilate the fame, and then the Hammer is an Inftrument aéu fecundo, by the {econd att. So native heat is an Inftrumence whereby Nature digefts Chyle, and forms Blocd, Flefh, and Bones. Buc che heac cannoc perform this, unlefs the fou! which is the principal Inftrumene concur, And ic is the nacure of an Inérumens cto att above ics own abilities, and to produce an effect more noble chan it felf, viz. anafmuch as, itis dieéted and moved by the
Ax Inftrse
: nets a bad Na : , : ment direa prtacipal Caute: which while ic fo directs and: moves does not IMBpcint any virtue upon the Ged hy the
Inftrumenct, by which ic may perform that Action which belongs ca the principal Agenc, principal Forneicher does che Arcift neceffarily make his Inftruments, but he receives them made to “«k/e acts us hand, either by Nature or Arc, and he makes ufe of them being by. Nacure or Are fitted lager co his turn, as may be feen in che Saw ufed by the Joyner, which he had of che Smith, and in lings the Cole or Chalk which the Painter ules. And therefore chat political example ofa King
working a great way off by Lawsand Judgesy as a moral Inftance, does not {quare with
things natural. And che {ubordinace Judges are rather Minifters than Inftruments of the fupream Judg, nor dothey a& by any Phyfical Virtue communicated. For neither do In- ftrumenis properly to called perform the work of the principal caufe as its Vicars or Subfti-
rures, tO as co perform che fame action wich che principal Caufe, chough after amanner deri-
ved and communicated {rom che {aid principal Caufe; but they are only Con-caufes and Co-
workets, and unlefs che Arcift did work they fhould do nothing ; and when che motion of the principal Agence ceaies, they alfoceate trom their action.
As to rhe example abour che motion and impulfe of things hurled, it does not fufficently Tye cay/e prove the force impreffed upon Inftruments. For after what manner that morion of things of the Mo- hutled ss caufed, ts noc fufficiently manifeft, and much controyerced amongft Philofophers. ton of itis moft likely chat chis motion is made by che Air, or through means of the Air, and by che “/#g3 bur= Force of che chrow. For noman could yer ever tel what thac vircue is imiprefied by the a Thrower, & hoy it cin be imprinted by the local motion of che Acm, tomcimes immediately, otherwhiles mediately as by a Sling where it fticks ; how again 1¢ 1s fo fuddainly. loft and de- ftroyed, Aid there are doub:lefs more abfurdicies which follow this Opinion, and there- fore it cannux be allowed co confirm the received Vircue of a feparated Inftcumenc.
And as torhofe examples of artificial Engines, as Clocks, Watches, Water-works ; thefe things are ar ficial, in which che morive faculty ic felf, which is wholly natural, is not com-~ nunca ed by Arcto thofe Engines, as appears by the weights hung on by the {pring: bue that mouon is diredted by Wheels arcificially made. But itis far otherwife with natural Agents. |
some do yer endeavor to declare the nature of a feparate Inftrument by the Example ofa red hor Iron, which fets Tow.on fire, For they fay, rhe Heat of che Iron doth produce fire Loftrumenrally, by viccue of that fire which heaced the Iron, and it ats now as its In= ftiument, no longer conjoyned, bur feparacecherefrom. For chat fire which heated che Iron may Dow be ex-inguifhed and puc our. But in good truth the hot Iron does not fet the Tow on fice by a power communicated from che abfent fire, but by the fice which is in che hot Icon having by its {mal Aromes infinuated it felf.
And therefore thefe are words under which no truth is contained, that the prine — yypp,pz9 cipal Agent tran{mits its ation by a vircue derived from itfelf: bur the whol nature of an the nature Inftrument confifts herein, 2s hath been faid, chatit produces an effect more noble than it of an Ins felf, and thar not hike it felf, but che Accificer, . And this is the common Condition of every /trmment Infttument, And therefore an Inftrumenc cannot be divided intoa conjoyned Inftrument, ponte. Which acts and operaces by fomthing participated in a fuccellive being; and a feparate In- ftrument which acts by famwhat participated inherent therein. For it is che nature of every Inftrument co operate by fomwhat parcicipated from the principal Agenc in a fucceflive being,
And asfoon as that fucceflive Influx of che principal cauie ceafes, thac whol inftrumental - action ceatesalfo: but chat which acts and operates by fome participated vertue inherent in it felt isnot an Inftrumenc, but operates now as a principal Apent 5 nor does ic act above its own ability, which is effential for an Inftrumentrodo. Ina word, thar Agent whofe Effect an{wers and is equalto a virtue formally inherent in it felf, is a principal, not an Inftrumental Agent; nor tsthere any Agent in Nature which receives viccue from another ching perma= Hently inberencinic felf atcer che manner of an Inftiument, or which aéts by a vertue com
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Plant or Animal, is ao Inftrumental Agent, becaufe it acts noc asan Inftcument 3-bura principal Agear, becaufe tc acts as a principal Caufe. Now chat this Vertue cannot flow from any thing buc the Soul implanted in che Seed fhal be proved hereatter.
Chap. 6. That the Seed hath the Soul in it, and that the Soul in the feed fhapes the Living Body.
LL which things when the diligent Searchers of Nature bad confidered, and knew chat which were made by Nature or Are were made by chat which actually is, and animatede phat whatfoever moves ought co have an actwal Being, nor were ignorane thac a ‘hing unani- mated could not be che principal Caufe of an animated Body, but chat aching animate was produced by that which 3s animated as the principal Gaute, and that fuch noble adti- ons they faw could nos be attribuced to an accidencalone, not governed by che Soul, nor pre- fent therewith: they concluded rightly chat the Seed it {elf is animated, and hath a Soni in ic. Nor isthis Opinion firkt {prung up in this Age; and therefore icis falfly craduced and oppofed by fome asa new Opinion: but the moft excellent Philofophers and Phyfitians of Authors a} Apes havemaineained thefame; ‘Hippocrates, Lib. de Diata; Placo in bis Timeus 5 who hold a imole >. de cenerat.animal. cap. 1. @ 3. (fave thar he {aies che Mind comes from with= the feed to ; ° ; pa be anima. Out) Galen, 1. de fem. cap.7 & Lib. de marafino, cap.1. Fbemiftius, 2. de Anima; ted. text.6. Philoponus, Zimara, 2. de Anima, text. 43. Jacobus Fcrolivientis, 2.10 Arte Medic. queft.38- Jul. Cxl Scaliger, Exercitat.6. Cardanus, 2. Contradié. tr. 6, Con- trad. 17. Argenterus in Artem parvam, tit. de Temperam. Thomas a Vega, (uper Ar tem parvam, cap. 47- Chriftoph. a Vega, Art. med. Lib. 1. cap.3. Wolcherus Coirer, Lib. 2, controverf.cap.9. Zabarelta, de Anime facult.cap.1x. Mercatusy Lib.1. part.
4. claff 1. quaft.98, Capivaccius, Lib. de feet. format. Joubertus,in cap. 5. Lab. 1,Ga- leni de facuft. natural.
Tharthe AA Seed is 4, Ss althings
Archangelus Piccolhomineus, Lib.1.Pralett. Anatom. prelett.3. Forturtius Licetus every where in his Books de fpontaneo Viventium orty.
And although (as was faid before, Chap. 3.) Authors are here of cwo Opinions, whiles fome fay che Souls of al Living things are communicared by the Generators 10 the Seed, and o'hecsexceps the Humane Souls yeraic wil be (ufficient if 1¢ can be proved in general of Plancs and Animals; but whether orno the fame Reafons hold good in the generation of Man, and whether the Generation of Man have any thing peculiar, we fhal confider in the laft place.
And for our bezter praceeding we muft firft fay fomthing of che Nature of Seed, and chat te Seed of Man, but in general of al Seed, inafmuch as of the feed Plants and Animalgare propagated chereby. Touching the Nature indeed of Seed there
are divers Opinions of Authors, and mofi hold that it isan Excrement. For they fay chac
Seed being a thing according co Nature, is euher a part of the Body, or an Aliment, or an Ex- cremeatotan Aliment. “That itisno part properly fo called, noc an Aliment of the Body, ic is fo manifeft chac there needs no énquiry thereabouts. Cherefore chey conceive it remains that it mutt bean Excremens. And cherefore they fay that the Seed ische remainder of char Blood which is diftribured into al the partsofthe Body, and can nourifh .al parts; and be- caufe it is voided forth they fay itisan Excrement. Bur this teafoning offends againft the Laws of Demonftration; fince Seed is bred nat only in Animals of Blood, but in Plants hrhe Seed which in Animals is voided forth may in fome fort
without Blaod ; ahd thoug be called an Excrement, yet chis does not betide al Seed, viz. the Seed of Plants. More-
over, the Seed of Animals is not only the fuperfluity of Blood, which therefore becaufe ic is fuperfluous Cas che Menftrucus Blood is an Excremenc) ic ought co be expelled, bur by a primaty Intention of Nature, as a thing moft neceffary it is made of the beft Blood by the Sperm- making Faculty.
Enumeration, and befides che Parr, the Aliment, the Excrement, there isa fourth, viz. the Ecnic, For the Seed is the Fruit ofa living Creature brought forth co that end chat its like may thereby be engendred. And therefore Epicurus (as Plutarch hath 1, de Placizs Philofopbor.) called it an abftract of the Body and Soul, and asthe Author of Medicinal de- finitions relates, Zeno Giticus defined the Seed after this manner, The Seed is che Abftraét ofa Man, anda Mixture of che Nature of his Progenitars, which a man cranfmits with the mot part ofhisSoul; beingfuch aching as that from whence it was voided, Yea, and the boly Scriptures teach, That the Herb feeding Seed, the Fruit-tree bearing Fruit, and every ching hav
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¢ fea Pega ate fhe NT aciien according to itskind 3 where the Fruic and che Seed are.one and the fame thing. And if any man efteem more of the Authority of Ariftotle in this point chan of the holy Scriptures, lec him confule with 4riftotle, who in 1. de Generat. Animal, cap.18. writes, That the Fruit is eixher the Seed, or thac which contains che Seed in ir. And fince at is manifeft’ in Plants, asalfoin Fifhes and Birds, that the Seed is not fimply an Exccrement, but’ fomwhac produced by the Generator, which hath its own peculiar Quantity, Figure, and Conforma- cion; why fhould the Seed be counted an Excrement in other Animals, alchough 1¢ bevoi-
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Bur ifyou wil cal che Seed before ir foes away and is feparaced from the Generator: a pacc of che Animal, you fha! commicno abfurdity. For (whichis chiefly manifeft in Plants) it both cleaves untoche whol Body; aiid ts informed by the fame Soul whereby the whol Bo= dy is informed. © Yet becaufé ic is generated cothac end, noc that the Generator may be hereby conftirnted, but that ic may be feparaced from the wkol, I conceive it may more fitly be called the Fruic. »
Seed therefore as it belongs ro al Jiving Bodies’ isa Body formed by the Generator, of bred heat, profitable co propagace any fore of Soul; or, it isa Body produced by the Generator, onc of whicha living Body arifes of the fame fore with chat from whence it came. And indeed in che Seed of Plants thar fame innate Hear is in an Oyly and Fatty Form, and hardly in any pare of the Planc is there more Oy! than inthe Seed : which appears at leaft hereby, in thar from rhe Seeds of Planes a great quantity of Oy! may be ftilled and preffed’s as is manifeft in Line-feed, Poppy-feed, Hemp-feed, Juniper Berries, Almonds, and other fuchlikee In fuch Animals as breed Egps "cis reprefented inthe form of an Egg: in fuch Creatures a3 bring forch live yong ones the innate Heat is in a {pirituous form, and therefore it eafily exhales and is diffipated, unlefs i¢ be prefencly received or conceived’by the Womb, and cherifhed by the’ warmch chereof.
Hete neverthelefs it is to be oblerved that che name of Seed is taken, fomtimes More large- ly, other whiles more ftri@ly, The Seed is largely caken for al thac Body which fetves for che propagation and'generation ofa livingCreature. But ftridtly caken it is.a moft fimple fubftance,or a certain (piric in which the Soul and Formative Faculty is immediately feated, and containing in ie felt che Idea or Model of thac Organical Body from which ic ts taken, and therefore‘ having in it the Power co Form a Body like co that from whence sc was taken, and co perfect “at‘felf incoan Individual of thefame fort with the Gene= rator.
Now che Seed confifts of rwo Subftances, the Macter, and che Form. ‘The Matter ‘is chae fame Body or bulk of che Séed, which ts various in different Creatures, andof another kind in Plants, and vatioufly diftinguifhed by che admitable wifdam of che Creator, according to
che Nature of évery fort of living thing; of one fafhion in Fifhes, anocher in Birds, another in other Animals.” And hac matter again confifts of two parts, of which one ts a thick fub- ftance, anocher{piritual, or (as Ariftotle faies) a Spiric and Nature an{werable to the Ele- ment ofthe Scars, “And che Spermatick Faculty is asthe Form being the Original of mori~ on, ‘and which hath fogreac a power, that Plutarch, (de Commun. Notiontb.) faies of the Seed, that it is moretmagnificenc and great than chac from whence it came, ‘and’ of which 16 was bred and thatiwhich Arifforle {aies in peneral of Principles, 5. de generat. Animal, eap.9s is chiefly erie of the Seed, viz. That Principles chough fmal in bulk, yec are excees ding preac in faculty and ability.” Which power ‘of the Seed Seneca alfo admires, Lib. 2. Quali. nat. cap. 6.° Let us confider (taies he) ‘what a mighty power {mal Seeds do fecretly put forth, and whofe whofe (malneft doth hardly take up any rootn betwixt the joyning of two ftones, they groxe fo firong as to draw afunder buge ftones,'and diffolve the “Monuments of thedead, “And Gregory the Great, in his 26.Homily upon the Evangelfis, writes excel- lencly-of che wonderful nature of Seed : “Behold! in one grain of the imalleft Seed lies. che whol bulk of the Tree:hat fhal {pring therefrom. For lec us {ec before our eyes the eres t~ nefgofa Tree , and think with'out felves what original it had which is etown fo great ; we thal doubrlefs find its originalto have been a fiwalSeed. _ And:now let us confider where Cin fo {mal grain) lies'the ftrength of the Wood, the roughnels of the Bark, the greacnefs af the raft and {mel, the plenty of Fruits, the greennefs of Leaves. Forif you feela'grain of Seed it is not firm or hard; whence then comes the hardnefs of the Wood ? ‘it is hot rough, whence chenscame the roughnefs of the Bark? ic is not favory, whence then is chetatt of che Fruits? Iehath no {mel, and how chen came the Fruits tobe fo fragrant? Jehath no greennefs 1p if, whence then.proceed the preennefs of the Leaves? Al) thefe therefore liehidin che Seed as | M one
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one and thefame time; yetare they not produced out of the Seed alaconce. For out of the Seedche Root is produced 5 out of che Root fprours a Branch, out of the Branch grows Fruic, and out-of the Fruac 1s produced Seed again. Let.us therefore ad that the Seedalfo lies bid in the Seed.
Hence therefore fome donot unficly cecm che Souls Idea’s or Patretns, becaufe in chem as ina Prototype, the Nacure and Fabrick of al Vifible Bodies which they fosm and fhape, and of al accidents which they produce in cheir Bodies, is comprehended.
But chat che Principal parc of che Seed istheSoul, and that therefore che Seed is anima- ced, fha] be anon proved by firm Arguments, wherewith a mind defirous of Truzh ma y be fa- tisfied. But becaufe I {ee that moft men now adaies do not regard fo much what istrue ae what is old, it were worth the while to alleadg the Authorities of ancient Philofaphers and Phyfitians ; but we have done thar already im the beginning of thisChapter. Alo che Au- thorities of Divines (both Greek and Latins) might be produced ;. but becaufe moft of them {peak only of the Soul of Man, of which we hal {peak hereafter, it thal fuffice in chis place co alleadg only the Auchoricy of Arzftotle, who 2. de Generat. Animal:c.1. thus Writes = Ail things whatever are made by Nature or by Art ave made by that wbich is attually out of that which i potentially (uch or fuch. ‘The Seed therefore is fucha thing as bath {uch a Motion and Principle in ii felf that the motion being finifhed every part exifis, and each part al{o ws animated. Andin2.Pbyf cap. 3. text.31. The Seed, and the Phyfitian, and be that advifes with bim, andevery Efficient, are all of them Caufes, wbence there is a Principle of Mutation, Reft, or Motion. And more fuh like places Scaliger produces, ELxercit.6. Set. 7. Allo confider what follows, out of which ic manifeftly appears chat though Ariftotlesaies the Soul is potentially inthe Seed, yer chae he holds ic is really there, Which appears by che example of a Geomerrician fleeping, waking, congemplating, which he makes ufe of. For asthe Geometrician fleeping and waking hath the power co conremplate,
che former a remote power, the latter a neerer power, each of which notwithftanding pre= fuppofes an Act, fuchas is nor in al men, but only ina Geometrician 5 fo ina Tree (for ex-
amples fake) in che Winter time when it grows not there is a neer power Co grow, becaufe
at hath Organs neceffary co caufe it to grow already perfect: but in che Seed there is a rem
mote power, becaufe it is as yet deftituce of Organs; yet each power pre-fuppofes an act,
and neither the Seed nor the Tree could be called potentially fuch, unlefs the Sou) were refent.
Ariftotle indeed faies, That, che Gene. ration ofa living thing is the parsicipacion of the firft Nucritive Soul with che inbred heat. And in 2. de generat, animal, cap. 3. be writes, That a Man lives ficft che life of a Plant, then of an Animal, and jaftly of aMan. But this is not fo:co be umderftood as. if three Souls came at diftinét times, For every living ching (even accordingto Ariffotle) bach but one Soul,whereby it as chat which it ise And eherfore in al feed whatever there is prefent- ly che whol Soul, which neverthelefs does at firft form the Inftcuments neceffary for Nutri- tion; which becaufe it is chiefly and almoft only confpicuous in Plants a man is {aid live firft che life of a Plant. Afterwards in proce(s-of time che Inftrumenss both of Sen{e and Motion are formed in Animals ; which being perfected,a Man is then faid co live che life of an Animal,and ofa Man., Forneither (as] alfothewed in Lib.6. Phyfice, cap. 1.) the Ve~ petative and Senficive, .or che Vegetative, Senfitive, and Rational, are peculiar and general Forms. or three Effences, bur only general Conceptions arifing and confticuced from the comparifon and apreement of living things, which exift no where {eparaced fave inthe Mind of Man; norjache. Nature of any Planc perfected only by che Vegetative Faculty, but eve- cy Plant hatha {pecifick Form, endued wich a vegetative power indeed, buc yet with orher Faculties alfo. ..:
This Opinion of Araftorle. Cand indeed the very Truth) concerning the prefence of the Soul in the Seed. moft excellence Philofophers and Phyficians of al Apes have acknowledged, whom I ciced in the beginning of this Chapter, and efpecially Fulins Cafar Scaliger, Exer- cit..6. Set.7. ek fequent, andamonpft later Writers, the moft learned Fortunixs Licetus, (who as elfewhere, fo in Lib. 4. de{pont.vivent. ort#,cap.32~ propounding as it were the Sum of what he had taughcelfwhere) wrices, That che Seed is an imperfect Animal, and thata Lyonand the Seed of. aLyon are Univocals, and haveche fame Soul for their Eflen- tial Form, and.differ only in the Organization of their Bodies ; and Lib. 1. Cap. 74That the Father chen cruly generates when he cafts out his Seed, his Sou! being parted by parcici- on of ics fubjedt, and of one being made ewo3 and chat which.cemains in the Seed being chee tifhed by che gemper of che Womb and obsaining a fit maccer exercifes its. Faculcies chere= upon,
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de Articulis , in epidemiis, cals Nature moft Sagacious, moft Juft, moft Arcful, moft Provi- dent, moft Difcreet, -Ariffotle compares her to a prudent Houf-holder rightly mannaging a}J things, who in generation makes nothing fuperfluous, nor omits any thing neceffary, chan- ges nothing, nor produces any thing fooner or later than need requires, does nothing in vain 5 \fo that there is no member in a living body but hath its action, nor is there any action which wantsics member or Inftrument. And 1. de part. Animal. ch. \aft, he admires the Wil= dom and Power of Narure even inthe meaneft chings, Galen alfoin his 16..de Ufy parti~ um, ch, 1. does teach tha diftribucive juftice isin nature very eminent, andin 15. de Ufte partiznr, chap. 1. that Mans words cannot exprefs the wi{dom of Nature; and inche fame Book, ch. 7. he faies chac Nature is more skilful than the skilfulleft Arcift. Which in 17. de Uju partium, cap. 6.he proves by example of Phidias, who though he had wich fuch ad~ mitabl« workmanfhip engraven ina Ring Phaeton in his Chariot wich four Horfes, that che pars of che four Hories might be difcerned diftinét one from another, and the fixteen Feet of the Horfes were vifible: yet the workmanfhip of nature in the Thigh ofa Gnat is more adinirable chan that of Pb:dias, in all chole members of che four Horfes. For befides the Articulacion, there is found therein a faculty to move, nourifh, and grow. And how great the Wifdom and Power of Nature is, even a Plane the lowéft fore of living things does fuitici- ently fhew ; in which there is fo much variery and beauty,in figure,colour, {cituation, that no man can tuffictently admire,much lefs imicate the fame.And froin the Praifes of Nature Galen fitly raifes himfelf in many places co praife the God of Nature; and no Philofopher is more large infecting forth the praife of God, and all his Books of the ufe of che Pares of che Body ( as bimfelf faies_) are nothing butan Hymne in Praife of the Admirable works of God. Bur efpecially Lib. 3. de Ufu part. cap. 10. he writes excellently indeed ; But truly ((aies he) if I fhou'd fpeak any more of these kind of Cattel, men better minded might juftly be of- fended at me perbaps, and fay that | defiled that facred difcourfe which Iframe as a true
‘Hymne in praife of our Maker, and I conceive that herein w true Piety, not to Sacrifice to °
bim many hundreds of Oxen, or to burn Callia Lignea and a thoufand other [weet perfumes and Oyniments, But if I firft know my felf,, and then declare to others robat bis Wifdom w, his Virtue and Goodnef.. For inthat be would adorn all things with convenient furni= ture, and fuffer nothing to be deprived of bis benefits shat 1 count as a token of moft perfect Goodnef; andin thé refpett bis Goodnefs muft be celebrated by us witb Hymnes, But to have invented all this, bow and after what manner every thing foould be adorned, is a point of the bigheft Wifdom3and io bave been able to bring to paft al that be pleafed,is an argument of aninvincible and unconquerable Virtue and Power, Thou muft not therefore fo admire
tbe Sun, “Moon, anduniverjal order of the otber Stars, being fo exceeding artificially mar- . |
Shalled & difpofednor let their Greatne(s,Beauty, per petual Motion,or foceriainly de(crzbed Circuits render thee fo aftonifbed as to think thefe fublunary things mean in comparifon, and wold of all ornament. ‘Por bere alfo you {hal find a like Wifdom,Power, and Providencee Por do but confider the matter wbereof every thing % made, and do not vainly perfivade thy felf, that of menftrual Blood and Seed animmortal Creaxure could be made, or onetbatis impafjibble, or alwaies movable, or as bright and fair asthe Sun. But as you eftimate the ‘Art of Phidias, fo confider the Art of the Maker of all things. But you may perbaps be aftonifhed at sbe wonderful Ornaments of the Statue of Jupiter Olympius, the bright Ivory, be fore of Gold, the largenefs of the whol Image. But if you fbould fee fuch an one of C lays you voul pafs by the fame it may be with contempt. But fo wil not an Artift do nor one that # able to judg of the works of Art, but be praifes Phidias as much, if be {ee bis workman= Sbipin common Wood, or Wax, or Clay. For a vulgar and unskilful Bye is aftoni= \ foed atthe ricbnefs of the matter, but an Artift # only amazed at the Beauty of the morke manfbip. Come on therefore, bethoua skilful Naturalift, that we may not term thee a rude Pleberan but atrue Philofopber. Leave the difference of matters, and confider the bare
Artis felf. When thou obferveft the ‘Fabrick of the Eye, think that it is the Inftrument of
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the marrow is placed, and round about Veins great and {mal are dif{perfed through the body of the whol Trunk; and they in an admirable order fpringing, the leffer from the greater, through which all parts draw nourifhment to themjelves, And in the upper part bow wonderfully do the Leaves {pring out of the Branches, whereim alfo we bebold a wonderful Connexion of Veins and Arteries. Alfo the Leaves bave all tbe fame fhape, the fame finoothnefi or roughnels, a like longitude and latitude voell-neer , the fame color, tafi, and fmels andinevery re{pett Trees of the fame kind are exceedingly one like another. I pafs over the beauty of the Flowers, the {weetnefs of the Fruits, and in both a wonderful Ar~ tifice. And all thefe Originally fpring from the Vertue of one Seed. And inthe Seed like wife of a living thing, and confequently of a Man. (out of whichibe Child grows as to its Body.) 1 not that alone exceeding wonderful, that by reajon of the Veriue robich m info exceeding vile altogetber deformed and filthy matter, {uch a decency of Members, fo beax- tiful a compofttion, fo convenient an order, fo effettual a difpofition of ‘Members, fo rare @ coujunttion of parts fbould arife? namely, ‘Ibat beneath a broad part fhould be fbaped upon webich the vobol body might firmly ftand, and move from place to place 4 the extream part whereof fhouldbave a manifold divifion, fo thatthe matter fbould be carved ap it rere into particles, wiz. bat the Feet fhould bave Toes, and that thefe parts again fbould bave fuch an order that that vbich is in the firft place fhould be longer and thicker than the veft, and {oto proceed gradually, as that the lat Loe is of all the finalleft and the fbortefts Likewife, That thefe parts at the end of the foot fhould befo regu larly and gene= rally five in number, that be ws counted for a Monfter that bath fix. Alfo that each of thefe parts bath its joynts wherein they may be bowed, and the frft and greateft hath only one qoynt in the middle, the reft every onetwo. And all thefe things are manifefily apparent in the compofition of the Foot and Hand to bim that fhalllook no furtber than the out fide. And in the uppermoft Part of the Body, bow there w framed with rare Artifice around part, which is covered above with she Skull, of (o hard andindiffolvable a boney fubftance that lying mdny yeers together in the Earth it cannot be confumed. Which Skul m covered roith flefb and skin, whence flor the Hairs vobich cloath the part allover. But under this Sigel is formed a certain noble and moft tender fubftance which we term tbe Brat, and that in feveralparts varioufly formed thatit might be afit receptacle for divers Verines, and the Organ of fundry noble Operations. Inwhich upper round part the Eyes alfo are pla- ced, beautifully formed in their fockets, yet fo astbey might be moft readily moved, which’ alfo have their Byelids and Eyebrows. Under thefe the Noftrils, and on the fides the Ears; and under the Noftrils the Mouth-bole to receive the ‘Meat, and round about the Favo-bones ful of Teeth 5 the foremoft of robich atthe entrance are thin and fharp to cut and mince the Meat, but the binder are more than twice as thick, which like Mill-fiones grind vobat the otber hath cut into {mal particles, in which regard they ave alfo called Grinders. But on the bach-fide of the Head all is fout up, and no opening to be feen : but there are firong Nerves, and wonderful Foynts which faften the Head (the upmoft part) to tba Shoulders beneath , fotbat though the Head do not touch the Shoulders, yet t¢ 19 beauta- fully fepported by them without burden by interpofition of the Neck, And bence from the Shoulders (asit were woo Boughs) the Arms are fivetched out for the performance of any work. which in the middeft (namely the Elbow) are madeto bend, and bave their utmoft parts orderly divided into Fingers, as was {aid before of the Feet. ‘Moreover that fame moft noble member the Heart is {0 voonderfuily feated in the middeft of the Body, ba~ wing the Lungs placed round about tofan.and temper its beat, draxping the Air continual. ly in by their refpiration like a pair of Bellows, and fotemperingits Heat: alfo baving the 3 Liver
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This alfo confirms the fame chat in Plants we fee a Roor, cr Branch, or alfoa Leaf only, asin che Indian Fig-tree, being pluckt from che Plant and ftuck in che ground, does grow in- to acompleat and perfect Plant ; whichische work of nothing bucthe Soul prefenc cherein, And fince che fame ching is done in che Seed, we juftly conclude that the Sou) is prefent and therein, and performs the fame work. Yea, and when we feeche fame Planc (as Rolemar ty for example) propagated both from a Seed and Branch we acknowledp the fame caufe in both cafes. For otherwife chere would be cwo different caufes of one {pecial-efteG, and two contorming Faculzes of one and the fame Planc, which is falfe andabfurd.. -;
Toantwer this Argument, Fienus (truly) labors and {weats hard, deformefcet, quaft.s, Fienus bis Concluf. 6. bucyetinvain. For he faiesthaca new Plant is produced one way ouc of che Reafon’ a- Rooc and Branches, another way outof theSeed, For of the former a new. Plant is not St the made, bur chey being fevered from their ftem are themfelves a new Plant; becaufe being of ibe feed cut fromthe whol they have already a vegetative foul multiplied, but do noc acquire the of Plants.
fame, by which they augmenc themfelves and atcain co theic perfection. © Contrariwile, that the Seed is no. new Plant, becaufe it hath no foul, but ic becomes a new Plant by che coming of a foul inco it afer it is planted inthe Earch 5 or by che foul which is newly pros duced in che feed after itis put into the Earth. ME But Penvs can by no means chustreehimfelf.. For in the firft:place,though ic feem ano- ther manner of propagation coche fenfe, chat which is by che Root or Branch, from: ehat whichis by the Seed::. yet in refpect of che principal Efficiencitis indeed one and che fame, fince i proceeds from the fame foul, . Fienws denies indeed ( by rea(on of a pre-conceived Opmion) that the foul of che Plancis in che feed, buc he proves it by no:reafon. , Con> trariwife, from the operations of the Formative Faculcy which ase in both alike we firmly conclude che fame foul to be in both, viz. in che Seedk(for exam ples take of Rolemary) and an the Branch thereof. Moreover inthe fame fence, as a Root,a Branch ora Leaf may be cale led anew Plant, the Seed may alfobe focalled. For in each there is its Soul, but in the Seed there is wanting the ultimate perfection {pringing from the Organs. Thirdly, if be gcants the who] foul may be in the Slip of a Rooryand in one Leaf of a Tree,and thac by cue ting off che foul is multiplied, and chat che foul: which before was but onein number, viz. while che faid Root, or Branch, or Leaf did grow tothe Plants by cutting che {ame ,off is multiplied ; why does he not grane chat che {ame mulciplication may be made iby che feed ? efpecially finceal feeds ace rarely fathioned, and fome of chem, have amore artificial fhape than ehe Root of an Hop or any other Plant, .or che Leaf of an Indian Fig-tree? pre fame Operations,in both do argue Cdotbrlefs) the prefence of the fame Soul in oth. We do therefore rightly argue from this wonderful Fabrick of che Body which ismade in and of the feed, that she foul is prefent therein... For, whatfoewer is made by Nature or by Art muft be made by that which haib an attual Being; and that which. moves. muff have an attual Being and every immediate efficient Gaufe muft neceflacily be joyned with the Patient. Andcherefore inthe generation alfo of al living things chae which forms the Body muft be prefenc, and mutt be joyned co that Body. . And that whichis yer more, the miniftring powers themfelves which wait upon the Formative Faculty do ala ppear in che feed. For the firft Operation whichis.performed in the Seed: isin a Plane che dra wing of nourifhment from the Earth, andin Animals che drawing of the Mothers blood, The fecond is the Vivification and Animation thereof, or Communication of the Soul chereto. . For the Nutriment drawn out of the Earth is inanimate, and the blood alfo is of ic {elf inanimate. But when of chefe che parts of a Plane and of a Child are made, they muff needs then be anie
|| mated. But nothing can givea Soul but chas which hath ict,:and therfore che Seed is animated,
| The chird Operation isthe feparative. Since the Liver is made of ope kind of matter, the » || Stomach of another, the Heare of another, che Brain of another; a Vein, a Nerve, ap Ar- | Sery of another, che Soul inthe Seed difcerns and feparateschefe-macters one from anothers
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