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"The Nature therefore of heate preuailing, forceth the increment or growth, vp from the middle part, according to his impetuous strength and nimble agility, that is, it striueth and driueth toward that part of the world, toward which heate is naturally mooued, that is to say, vpwards. For the matter of mans body, it is soft, pliable and temperate, readie to follow the Workeman in euery thing, and to euery purpose; for man is the moystest and most sanguine of all Creatures. The finall cause of the frame of mans body is manifolde. First, man had an vpright frame & proportion, that he might behold and meditate on heauenly things. And for this cause, Anaxagoras being asked wherefore he was born, he made answere, to behold the heauens and the Starres. Secondly, that the functions and offices of the outward sences, which are all placed as it were a guard in pension, in the pallace of the head, and in the view and presence Chamber of Reason, which is their soueraigne, might in a more excellent manner be exercised and put in practise: for they were not ordained onely to auoide that which is hurtfull, and to followe and prosecute that which is profitable; but moreouer also for contemplation: and therefore they were to be placed in the highest contabulation or Story of the body. And by this meanes, speech, which is the messenger of the minde, is the better heard from on high; the Smell doth more commodiously receyue and entertaine the vapor that ascendeth: the Eyes being as it were spies or Centinels, day and night to keepe watch for vs, & being beside giuen vs, that we should take view of those infinite Distances and glorious bodies in them, which are ouer our heads, did therefore require an vpright frame and composition of the body.
(I.ii, p. 5)",2011-09-27 21:23:51 UTC,"""Secondly, that the functions and offices of the outward senses, which are all placed as it were a guard in pension, in the palace of the head, and in the view and presence Chamber of Reason, which is their sovereign, might in a more excellent manner be exercised and put in practice.""",2011-09-27 21:23:51 UTC,"Book I, Chap. ii","",,Rooms,"",Reading in EEBO,19215,3535
"After this manner, Democritus of Abdera, that he might finde out the seate of anger and melancholy, cut in peeces the bodies of beasts, and when he was taxed of the Citizens for madnesse in so doing, he was by the censure and determination of Hippocrates, adiudged to be very wise and prudent. Go too then, is not he saide to know himselfe, who can tell how to temper and order the state and condition of his minde, howe to appease those ciuill tumults within himselfe, by the stormes and waues whereof he is pittifully tossed, and how to suppresse and appease those varieties of passions wherewith as it were with so manie furies he is vexed and tormented? But all this Anatomy doth verie plainly teach vs. For he that seeth and obserueth the whole body, which by the structure and putting together of sundry parts of diuers sorts and kinds, is (as it were) manifold & full of variety, to be made one by the continuation and ioyning of those parts; he that considereth the admirable simpathy of the parts, their mutuall consent and agreement, their common offices, or officiall administrations one for the helpe of another, how they make not any couetous reseruation to themselues, but do freely communicate each with other; such a man no doubt will so moderate and order the conditions and affections of his minde, as all things shal accord and ioyne in a mutuall agreement, and the inferiors shall obey the superiors, the passions obey the rule of right reason. He that shall diligently weigh and consider the vse of euery part, the fashion, scituation, and admirable workemanship of them all, as also, the Organs and Instruments of the outward sences, he shall easily perceiue how and after what manner he is to make vse of euery part; then which thing, what can be more excellent, what more profitable?
(I.v, pp. 12-13)
",2011-09-28 01:24:04 UTC,"""Go too then, is not he said to know himself, who can tell how to temper and order the state and condition of his mind, how to appease those civil tumults within himself, by the storms and waves whereof he is pitifully tossed, and how to suppress and appease those varieties of passions wherewith as it were with so many furies he is vexed and tormented?""",2011-09-28 01:24:04 UTC,"Book I, Chap. v","",,"","",Reading in EEBO,19221,3535
"Two eares, and those wide open, hath Nature ordained for thee; to teach thee that thou must heare, and by hearing, learne twice as much as thou must speake. Nature hath giuen thee but one tongue, tied with ten Muscles, and reyned with a very strong ligament, besides, as it were with a bridle, shut vp and enclosed within the mouth and teeth, as it were within a grate or Lattice, that the minde might first discerne and iudge of a thing before it vtter it, and that our words might first passe by the file, before they passe by the tongue. If you looke into the seats and residence of the faculties of the minde, you shall finde the rational faculty in the highest place, namely in the brain, compassed in on euery side with a scull; the faculty of anger, in the Heart; the faculty of lust or desire in the Liuer: & therefore we may gather these lower and inferiour faculties, must bee seruiceable and obedient to the higher, as to the Queene and Prince of them all. And if both Princes and Peasants would weigh and consider the mutuall offices betweene the principall and the ignoble parts, Princes might vnderstand how to rule, and Peasants how to obey. Princes may learne of the braine how to make Lawes, to gouerne their people; of the heart, how to preserue the life, health, and safety of their Citizens; of the Liuer, they may learn bounty and liberality. For the braine sitting in the highest place, as it were in a Tribunall, distributeth to euery Organ or Instrument of the sences, offices of dignity: the Heart like a King maintaineth and cherrisheth with his liuely and quickning heate, the life of all the partes: the Liuer the fountaine and well-spring of most beneficall humidity or iuice, nourisheth and feedeth the whole family of the bodie, and that at her owne proper costs and charges, like most a bountifull Prince. As for the meaner sort of people, they may easilie vnderstand by the ministering and seruile organs, what bee the limits of seruice and subiection. For the parts that are in the lower bellie do all serue the Liuer; the Stomacke dooth concoct the meate, the Guts distribute and diuide it, the veines of the Mesentarie prepare it; the bladder of Gall, the Milt and the Reines, do purge and clense the princely Pallace, & thrust as it were out of the Kitchin, downe the sinke, all the filth and garbage. The parts that are included within the Chest, do serue the Heart; those that are in the head, do attend the Braine, and so each to others, doe affoord their mutuall seruices. And if any one of them do at any time faile of their duty, presently the whole Houshold gouernment goes to ruine and decay.
(I.v, p. 13)",2011-09-28 01:50:53 UTC,"""The parts that are included within the Chest, do serve the Heart; those that are in the head, do attend the Brain, and so each to others, do afford their mutual services. And if any one of them do at any time fail of their duty, presently the whole Household government goes to ruine and decay.""",2011-09-28 01:50:53 UTC,"Book I, Chap. v","",,"","",Reading in EEBO,19225,3535
"Some againe intercede for the Peripateticks; and say, that the principal faculties motiue and sensatiue are in the heart, as in their originall and fountaine. That the rootes of the nerues are in the heart, but because it is too narrow to yeelde out of it selfe all their propagations, they think the braine was framed as a second principle, wherin the animall functions might, not obscurely as in the heart, but euidently manifest and exhibite themselues. And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, standeth in no farther neede of the Princes protection, vnlesse it be now and then vpon especiall seruices. They conclude therefore that the Braine and the Liuer are truely called principall parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherwayes then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such imployments, doe receiue from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commaunders themselues. Some others vse another distinction, and say that materially the nerues proceede from the Braine and the veines from the Liuer; but the first and the formall principle they say is in the heart.
(I,Qii p. 42)
",2011-09-28 02:25:31 UTC,"""And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, standeth in no farther neede of the Princes protection, vnlesse it be now and then vpon especiall seruices.""",2011-09-28 02:25:31 UTC,"Book I, Quest.2","",,Inhabitants,"",Reading in EEBO,19232,3535
"Some againe intercede for the Peripateticks; and say, that the principal faculties motiue and sensatiue are in the heart, as in their originall and fountaine. That the rootes of the nerues are in the heart, but because it is too narrow to yeelde out of it selfe all their propagations, they think the braine was framed as a second principle, wherin the animall functions might, not obscurely as in the heart, but euidently manifest and exhibite themselues. And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, standeth in no farther neede of the Princes protection, vnlesse it be now and then vpon especiall seruices. They conclude therefore that the Braine and the Liuer are truely called principall parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherwayes then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such imployments, doe receiue from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commaunders themselues. Some others vse another distinction, and say that materially the nerues proceede from the Braine and the veines from the Liuer; but the first and the formall principle they say is in the heart.
(I,Qii p. 42)",2011-09-28 02:28:33 UTC,"""They conclude therefore that the Brain and the Liver are truly called principal parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherways then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such employments, doe receive from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commanders themselves.""",2011-09-28 02:28:33 UTC,"Book I, Quest.2","",,"",Left off here with my reading... READ MORE CROOKE.,Reading in EEBO,19233,3535