the happie or disordered temperature of those vitall Qualities, out of whose apt and regular commixion the good estate of the Body is fra med and composed. …c cipitio ad tan tam devenit ignorantiam ut.The whole Body is as an Eye, through which it seeth to the other a Hand, by which it worketh.Ĭoncerning the ministrie therefore of the Body unto the Soule, wee shall thus resolve That the Reasonable part of Man, in that con dition of subsistence which now it hath, depends in all its ordinarie and naturall operations, upon Solirus de 〈◊〉 For whereas the principall acts of mans Soule are either of Reason and Discourse, proceeding from his Vnderstanding or of Action and Moralitie, from his Will both these, in the present condition of mans estate, have their dependance on the Organs and faculties of the Body, which in the one precede, in the other follow: To the one, they are as Por ters, to let in and convey to the other as Mes sengers, to performe and execute: To the one, It shall suffice there fore, onely to lay a ground-worke in these lower faculties, for the better notice of mans greater perfections, which have ever some connexion and dependance on them. And the reason hereof is, because Nature aiming at a superiour and more excellent end, is in those lower faculties lesse intent and elaborate. beasts have a greater activitie and exquisitenesse in their senses than wee. Intending therefore, ac cording to my weakenesse, to take some view of the inside, and more noble Characters of this Booke, it will not be needfull for me to gaze up on the Cover, to insist on the materials or sensi tive conditions of the humane nature, or to commend him in his Anatomie though even in that respect the Psalmist tells us, that he is feare fully and wonderfully made: for wee commonly see, that as most kind of Plants or Trees exceed us in vegetation and fertilitie so, many sorts of Sen. Workes, one of the most perfect Models of crea tedĮxcellencie, wee cannot but acknowledge him to be one, though of the least, yet of the fit test Volumes, in this great varietie of Nature to be acquainted withall. And yet if wee consider, how in him it hath pleased God to stampe a more notable Character of his owne Image, and to make him, amongst all his Sen. …est which was ever given to man, To studie and to know himselfe because, by reason of his owne neerenesse to himselfe, hee is usually of himselfe most unknowne and neglected.In which re spect, the plaine Counsell of the Oracle was one of the wi Whereas indeed things are fit for studie and observation, though never so common, in regard of the perfection of their nature, and usefulnesse of their knowledge. … on the Sunne, but in an Eclipse no eye gazeth on the Moone, but in her Travell: so naturall it is with men, to admire rather things N.nisi laborantem, adeò naturale est magis nova, quàm magna mirari: None looketh with wonde Sol specta torem nisi cum desicit non habet, nemo observat Lu nam Sen. Let a Child be borne but with six fingers, or have a part more than usuall, wee rather wonder at One supers than those glorious Lampes of Nature, with their admirable Motions and Order, in which the Heathen have acknowledged a Divinenesse. Every Comet or burning Meteor strikes more wonder into the beholder, Cic. Thus like Children, with an idle diligence, and fruit lesse Curiositie, wee turne over this great Booke of Nature, without perusing those ordinarieĬharacters, wherein is exprest the greatest power of the Worker, and excellencie of the Worke fixing our Admiration onely on those Pictures and unusuall Novelties, which though for their rarenesse they are more strange, yet for their na ture are lesse worthy. and that the very neerenesse of worthy Objects, hath at once made them both despised and unknowne. IT hath been a just Complaint of Learned Men, that usually wee are more curious in our inquiries Cic. Of the dependance of the Soule, in her operations upon the Body.
A TREATISE of the Passions and Faculties of the SOULE of MAN.
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