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A36424	A voyage to the world of Cartesius written originally in French, and now translated into English.; Voyage du monde de Descartes. English	Daniel, Gabriel, 1649-1728.; Taylor, Thomas, 1669 or 70-1735.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1692 (1692)	Wing D201; ESTC R5098	166,321	301

at all changed into the Body of Iesus Christ in the Eucharist but that after the Consecration the Bread still remains in the Host. In order to their Demonstration they demanded of Father Mersennus and the old Gentleman I. Whether by the Principles of Descartes the Matter of all Bodies considered in it self and independently of the different Modifications of its Parts was not of the same Species They answered Yes II. If that which constituted the Specific Difference of Bodies was not according to them the different Configuration the different Situation and the different Motions of the Parts of those Bodies They acknowledged it That supposed said they we 'll evidently prove That the Substance in the Eucharist after its Consecration is nothing else but Bread for the Matter or the Substance which hath the same Configuration of Parts the same Motion and in a Word all the same Modifications that constitute the Essence of Bread is Bread according to the aforesaid Principle But the Substance found in the Dimensions of the Host after the Consecration has all those Modifications and 't is only by the Means of those Modifications we conceive it to have the same Superficies as the Bread taking the Word Superficies in the same Sense Descartes gives it And 't is in vertue of those Modifications that that Superficies makes the same Impressions on our Senses as the Bread did before the Consecration And 't is from the same Reason that it reflects its Light precisely to the same Angles as the Bread That it receives all the same Impulses and the same Determinations of the Matter that pushes it towards the Centre as the Bread That it communicates the same Vibrations to the Nerves of the Tongue as the Bread Therefore the Substance that is in the Space of the Host after the Consecration according to Descartes's Principles has the Form or the Essence of Bread therefore it is Bread which was to be demonstrated And from thence our Catholick Peripateticks concluded It was not without good Ground that Recourse was had to Absolute Accidents in the Explication of that Mystery They made yet one Reflection more upon a Saying Descartes adjoyns to his Explication and which ruines his Answer Notwithstanding says he the Body of Iesus Christ to speak properly is not there as in a Place but Sacramentally For said they What is it for God's sake to be in a Place in proper speaking but entirely to fill a Space to hinder the Passage of other Bodies that present themselves to reflect the Light to be pressed downward to have Motion c. But all this according to Descartes agrees to the Body of Iesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Host. And on the contrary the Notion commonly received of a Sacramental Existence attributes not to a Body in that Capacity all those Properties for none of those that have spoke of the Body of Iesus Christ in the Sacrament have supposed it was that which reflects the Light c. Nay they say the quite contrary So they concluded deriding the Vanity of the Applause M. Descartes assumes to himself in that Place upon the Intelligible Manner wherewith he pretends to have explained that Mystery and upon the Obligations he has laid on the Orthodox Divines for having furnished them with an Opinion more agreeable with Divinity than those usually received Applause as well grounded as the Prophecy he made a little after by which one Day it shall come to pass that as soon as the World shall be reclaimed from the Prejudices of the School all the Opinions of our Old Philosophers and Divines thereupon shall disappear and vanish as Shadows at the Approach of that Light wherewith those Glorious Principles of the New Philosophy shall fill the Minds of all such as know how well to use them For my part I was of Opinion upon hearing Monsieur Descartes so refuted that he had better have stuck to his general Answer be it as bad as it will That he was a Philosopher and not a Divine and that he pretended not to explain the Mysteries of our Religion by the Principles of his Philosophy I was astonished too in that Occurrence That such sort of Answers had the good Luck to meet with no Reply especially having to do with M. Arnauld who would never willingly take the last Blow in Point of Disputes and Books But I am persuaded I have since found the Solution of that Difficulty in a Letter M. Decsartes wrote to a Father of the Oratory a Sorbon Doctor He says speaking of M. Arnauld That his only Judgment as young a Doctor as he was was of more Weight with him than that of half the Ancient Doctors of the Sorbon Was not a Clearing of that nature able to disarm the most incensed Adversary in the World During that Dispute wherein Father Mersennus and the Old Blade thought it unnecessary to keep to Mood and Figure and were content to evade the Objection by much raillery upon Absolute Accidents alledging they ought to be banish'd to the Desert of Scotus to make up his Train and Attendance with all his little Formalities We crossed the Calm Sea and turning short to the Right we passed through Hipparchus Ptolomeus and the Peninsula of the Stars and from thence we cut through the Sea of Clouds We entred into the Demy-Island of Dreams I mentioned in the beginning so called from the little Mansions in the Globe of the Moon inhabited for the most Part with Chymists that are in Pursuit of the Philosopher's Stone having not been able to find it upon Earth and a World of Iudicial Astrologers who still are as great Asses as they were in the other World and spend all their Time in making Almanacks and correcting by exact Supputations the false Horoscopes they made in their Life time Among others we found Cardan who though he was possessed of a good Copy-hold Eastward on the Shoar of the Ocean of Tempests could not yet forbear making frequent Visits of his Brethren of the same Society He passed away his Time but discontentedly having not yet conquered the Shagrin and Melancholy occasioned by that Notable Horoscope of Edward VI. King of England whose most remarkable Fortunes and Adventures he had foretold quite to the Fiftieth Year of his Age who yet had the confounded Luck to die at Fifteen Two other things much of the same Nature entertained his Thoughts in that deep Melancholy The first was the Death of his Son whose Horoscope had proved Faulty he having not foreseen what yet came to pass That he should be executed at Milan in the four and twentieth Year of his Age for poysoning his Wife The other thing was the uncharitable behaviour of Scaliger and Monsieur de Thou in publishing in their Books to all Posterity That he was suffered to dye with Hunger For after all said he to us they are Lyars for were I dead 't was impossible I should be here I must confess that having foretold the

be once receiv'd for Truth the Publick will become the Subject and Game on which in a short time the most Romantick Panegyrists shall sport the Extravagancies of their Imaginations That way of praising is injurious to the Persons prais'd and a Commendation so improbable as that renders the Truths themselves suspected that shall be found in Company with it M. Paschal was a Man of a most exalted Capacity but was far from being an Angel or a Devil I told M. Descartes thereupon I chanc'd into a Company not long since where one was speaking much to the same purpose as he had done upon this Topick and there fortun'd a Gentleman to be there a Friend to a Society that was under no mighty Obligations to M. P. who seeing all People ridicule that Fable said in a careless leering Air that the Author of the Preface and his Friends did at most but Justice to M. Paschal and that they had rather been too backward in that they had said no more and as he was urg'd to unmask himself as to the meaning of a thing every one perceiv'd he was not very serious in he added That Hyperbole as extravagant as it look'd to him appear'd but a very mean return for the Obligations they were under for his Letters to the Provincial in which he had done 'em very signal Favours that were worth these and that were on a more important Occasion To which all agreed and 't was acknowledg'd M. Paschal's Services to those Gentlemen could not be repaid in a better Coin Yet I must needs tell you M. P. wrote only by the Memoirs that were given him and that he thought true as false and precarious as they were not knowing the Spirit of a Party wherein he was ingag'd Undoubtedly he was rather over-reach'd himself than any design he had to impose on others Let us say no more on this occasion and M. Descartes recall'd me to the Chapter concerning Cartesianism He inquir'd then what Strength he had in the Vniversities and most celebrated Colleges of France And how his Doctrin was look'd upon there I told him without Ceremony what I knew concerning it That I knew no College that openly profess'd his Doctrin that most of them were discharg'd from Teaching of it That in the Vniversity of Paris extream care was taken lest the Professors should give too much liberty on that side That Cartesianism had been the Debate of several Assemblies and how that I had heard from some Body that it had been talk'd of putting it down by an Act of Parliament it was propos'd to the late Chief President M. de la Moignon but that that Expedient was not prosecuted That the Vniversity of Caen which next to that of Paris is the most flourishing at least for Philosophy had in one Thousand six Hundred Seventy seven declar'd against that Doctrin and condemn'd it as contrary to Orthodox Divinity denying all hopes to any that should undertake to maintain it of their admission to any Degree in the Vniversity and forbiding all such as were already admitted the teaching it viva voce or by Writing upon pain of forfeiting their Priviledges and Degrees that the Example of Anger 's had been imitated therein that two years before had made the like Decrees which had been confirm'd by a Placart of the King put forth at Versailles in the year 1675. and that most of the other Universities had gone in imitation of the same Proceedings This News chaf'd M. Descartes And what said he has no one in these occasions undertaken my Defence Would no Corporation no Community declare for my Doctrin We have seen whole Orders take on them the quality of Scotists and Thomists and to carry the Interests some of an Universal a parte rei others of an Universal a parte mentis sometimes beyond the Bounds of a laudable Emulation whilst a Philosophy so Solid and Curious as mine shall be abandon'd to the Humours and Caprice of the Vniversities I had pardon'd the Hollanders that their ill-natured Behaviour who were not oblig'd indeed to have those Considerations for a Stranger as I was in respect of them but I could never have believ'd they would have treated me so in France my Native Country to which I am sure I have given much Honour and Reputation Why were my Bones translated from Sweden to Paris if at the same time they intomb'd them with Pomp and Funeral Elogies they blasted my Memory throughout the Kingdom I quitted it 's true the World a little with the soonest But after all I left it not before I had acquir'd a most wonderful Esteem I had taken infallible Measures for the securing my Party And my Affairs had never been reduc'd to so damn'd a Plight had my Disciples trod in my Steps and kept their Eye exactly on my Views and my Designs For I must confess said he I was not exempt from the Weakness and Blind Side of all Leaders of a Sect. I was concern'd for the Progress of my own though I feign'd to seem as indifferent for that as any thing else and the Hopes I had one Day to see it take Place of all the rest serv'd as an Incentive to encourage my Endeavours I had drawn up my self a System of my Management for the accomplishing my Design My first Prospect was that of cajoling the Iesuits and sounding them to try if I could engage them in my Interests or at least make a Party among them that would have been a Parting-Blow indeed and my Affairs for ever after would have stood secure of any Rival or Competitor They are possess'd of the Colleges of the principal Towns in France and there are among them a great many Men of excellent Sense and capable of protecting my Opinions if once they were admitted Diverses Lett. de Des● Tom 3. I sent them my Works desiring them to examine them and assuring them I would submit them to their Judgment Circumstances were very favourable at that Juncture their Provincial was my Countryman my Friend and my Relation My Regent in Philosophy who was still living and whom I had observ'd to be a better Naturalist than most of the Philosophers of that Time wished me very well In short I question'd not my Success but I was highly surpriz'd upon Father Mersennus his acquainting me from Paris that Father Bourdin the Mathematician of the Iesuits College had publish'd Theses in opposition to my Docrin Those were the first that appear'd against me in France such a Thunder-clap as that gave me quickly to understand how the Society stood affected and how little Stress I ought to lay upon the Friendship of some Particulars Not long after the same Mathematician wrote against my Meditations in no very serious Style turning them to Droll and Ridicule which occasion'd on my part a very smart and vigorous Answer I complain'd thereof to Father Dinet in a Letter that I printed with my Meditations In a Word an open Breach was made betwixt