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Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits.…
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits. Two discourses, one in a letter to an unknown doubter, the other in a reply to Dr. Henry Moore's Animadversions on a private letter to him, which he published in his second edition of Mr. Joseph Glanvil's Sadducismus triumphatus, or, History of apparitions by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simons, 1682
OF THE NATURE OF SPIRITS: › Section 17-19: Ad SECT. XVII, XVIII, XIX.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 1. OF your Doctrine of Atoms I spake before: I have no mind to examine the weight of your Reasons publicly.
§ 1. OF your Doctrine of Atomes I spake before: I have no mind to examine the weight of your Reasons publickly.
§ 2. I thought you that so extol the Atomists Doctrine, would have deigned to read at least some of the Leaders of the various Sects: And my undervaluing them is no excuse to you: for as you knew not my judgment, so I suppose you do not much esteem it. That which I blame them for, is, that Lud. le Grand over-magnifieth Fire, Telesius and Campanella over-magnify Heat, Patricius over-magnifieth Light, as Cartesius doth Motion: But if the one Principle of Motion, Light, and Heat, had been better handled as one, (as it is) it had been sounder.
§ 2. I thought you that so extol the Atomists Doctrine, would have deigned to read at least some of the Leaders of the various Sects: And my undervaluing them is no excuse to you: for as you knew not my judgment, so I suppose you do not much esteem it. That which I blame them for, is, that Lud. le Grand over-magnifieth Fire, Telesius and Campanella over-magnifie Heat, Patricius over-magnifieth Light, as Cartesius doth Motion: But if the one Principle of Motion, Light, and Heat, had been better handled as one, (as it is) it had been sounder.
§ 3. I need not your hydrostatical experiment of the rising Rundle to convince me of the Motion of the matter of the World by a spiritual power: I doubt as little of Spirits as of Bodies: But I understand not what greater wonder there is in the rising of your Rundle, than in the rising of a piece of Timber from the bottom of the Sea; or that the heaviest body should sink lowest if it have way. Whether Water consist of oblong flexible Bodies, I am not much regardful to know: Each of those oblong ones are divisible into Atoms.