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A51313 Remarks upon two late ingenious discourses the one, an essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies, the other, observations touching the Torricellian experiment, so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridium Metaphysicum / D. Henry More. More, Henry, 1614-1687. 1676 (1676) Wing M2675; ESTC R2955 63,160 240

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at all Conclusion But now to bring all home at length to the intended scope and to recount the chief fruits of our labour in making these Remarks on the Learned Authours two Treatises If I be not out in my account I conceive in my Remarks on the first Treatise to say nothing of several in the second I have clearly demonstrated the invalidity of all this Authour's inventions though otherwise ingenious whether mechanical or natural and yet such as would exclude the Spirit of Nature whereby he might seem to undermine the strength of my Demonstration from the rising of the wooden Rundle in a Bucket of water Enchirid. Metaphys c. 13. sect 4. Which demonstration therefore remains unshaken in the behalf of the Principium Hylarchicum or Hylostatick Spirit of the Universe And as for that other like notable demonstration from the ascending of so great a weight hung at the Embolus of the Air-pump the chief undermining of the force thereof being by either the Elatery of the Elastick Philosophers or this Authour's Tension the former this Learned Authour himself has so abundantly confuted with such plain and solid arguments that any discerning person may easily discover the desperateness of that cause And now for that other I think I have offered abundant reasons for the incredibility ' or rather impossibility thereof Wherefore the conceit of the elasticity of the Air and of Funiculus Lini or Tension in general being thus utterly defeated it is manifest the force of my Demonstration Enchirid. Metaphys cap. 12. sect 2 3 4 c. from the weight at the Embolus of the Air-pump for the Hylarchick Spirit of the world holds strong and entire still And therefore I account in a more distinct compute that the fruits of my labour in making these Remarks are these First This Learned Authour I hope is freed from that anxiety solicitude touching me and is by this time satisfied that I have not incurred the guilt of that rashness and heedlesness as to make choice of small and feeble Arguments to sustain great and concerning Truths For it is very judiciously said of him and I am wholly of his mind That the most important and surest Truths in the world never receive so much detriment by Arguments and Sophistry of Opponents as they do by those Arguments in their favour which have improper mediums to support their conclusions or such as are capable of other solutions which I am very confident mine will never be found capable of And I think from these Remarks this Learned Authour by this time may be sensible is no rashly grounded confidence Secondly There is the redounding of no small commendation to this Authour for his industry and dexterity and special sagacity in making and improving Hydrostatical Experiments that are so considerable succours to such useful Truth For he has very stoutly and pertinently assisted me in a more full defeating of that which always appeared to me an incredible Paradox I mean that prodigious elastick pressure of the Air and therefore I impute it to the modesty of this writer that he has entitled his second Book Difficiles Nugae For though there may be some difficulty and curiosity in making and examining such like Hydrostatical experiments yet believe me there is no Nugality at all unless to those that make experiments for experiments sake or to pass away the time or to be thought great natural or rather mechanical Philosophers and that in hope to shew that all the Phaenomena of Nature may be performed without the present assistance or guidance of any immaterial Principle But to try and consider these Experiments and Phaenomena with that carefulness and distinctness and penetrancy of discernment as to discover there must of necessity be some immaterial mover underneath there is no nugacity at all in this but sound and serious Philosophy Thirdly therefore This is no small fruit of this Authour 's two Treatises and of my labour in making my Remarks on them that it does more plainly and evidently appear that there is nothing of real strength can be said against my Demonstrations for the Spirit of Nature but that of necessity there is such a Being in the world Fourthly And that therefore it being so plain that there is this inferiour immaterial Being endued only with life or some more obscure sensation and that has the general strokes of the Laws of the Universe but cannot act by reason and counsel pro re nata it is manifest that there is a more noble and divine Being in the world that gave this inferiour immaterial Being its existence and allotted to it in measure or limited out to it those general Laws of vital Activity which we discover in it in the Phaenomena of Nature Beside that this certainty of the existence of the Spirit of Nature demolisheth the strongest Bulwark that ordinarily the Atheist has namely his confidence that there is no such thing as a Spirit or Immaterial Being in the world Whence he securely hugs himself in that fond and foul Conclusion That there is no God Fifthly Whenas many men are driven quite out of all conceit of ever understanding the nature of their own Spirit or Soul by that sophistry put upon them that if it is a Spirit or Immaterial Being it would pass through the body but could not take hold of it or unite with it to move it the discovery of the Spirit of Nature moving as well as penetrating all the matter of the world will as solidly and palpably confute the Sophism as he did that against motion by walking before the face of the Sophister that would prove there was none in the world Sixthly Whenas this Spirit of Nature moves all the tenuious matter and fluid as well as solid in the Universe we easilier discern how rational it is that particular Spirits Angels suppose or Daemons may have a faculty of moving their tenuious vehicles and the souls of men the animal spirits in the body Seventhly lastly Whenas others according to the thickness of their conceptions cannot believe they have any soul at all but take it for granted they have none what a rousing argument ought this to be to them to awake them out of this dull dream to consider that a stone does not descend to the earth but by the virtue of a Spirit that moves it downwards nor a wooden Rundle ascend up in a Bucket of water but by the same means How then can it be possible but that we being conscious to our selves of more free and spontaneous motions of motions contrary to the tuggings of the Spirit of Nature of motions heavenly and divine that these can be performed by mere matter and body and not by a particular Spirit really distinct therefrom Wherefore there being that unexceptionable evidence for the existence of the Spirit of Nature and that egregious usefulness of the knowledge thereof I shall conclude for this ancient Platonick or rather Pythagorick Opinion in this Lucretian strain of confidence Ergo etiam atque etiam est in Mundo SPIRITUS ILLE NATURAE qui Materiam regit atque gubernat THE END * Remark 8. 28. * See Remark 20. * See Difficiles Nugae Remark 9. See Difficiles Nugae Remark 6 7. * Remark 9. 15. * Remark 12. 15. * Remark 2 14. * Remark 1 10. * Remark 12 15. * Remark 10 21 23 25. See also Difficiles Nugae Remark 2 10 11. * Remark 8. Enchirid. Met aphys. cap. 13. sect 4. * Enchirid. Metaphys cap. 12. Cap. 19. Sect. 2. * See Remark 4. * Remark 32. Cap. 12. Sect. 2. * Remark 12. * Remark 30. Remark 32. Cap. 6 Cap. 10. Sect. 6. Remark 1. part 7 and 8. Remark 33. * See Remark 27● * See Remark 1. 29. 32 33.