Natural history of the passions / [Anon].

  • Walter Charleton
Date:
1701
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Credit: Natural history of the passions / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    low this palpable contradidion, thele Men ought to have reconciled thofe two repug¬ nant notions of Simple and Compound • and to have told us, why in the lame fimple fubftance of fire there cannot likewife be two mutually repugnant faculties, heat and cold.~ In a Mixed body there may be, I oppofite faculties $ and therefore the like may be imagined alfo in the Rati¬ onal Soul, if fhe be conceived to be of a mixed or compound nature : but that is a- againlt their ownjMp^ttion, and deftruc- tive to the n aMfaT immortality of the Soul. What then cm remain to caufe this dire War daily obferved within us, betwixt the allurements of our Senfe, a^n one fide, and tne grave dictates of our Mind, on the o- / ,o’ S,Ut f? diftinft Agents, the Ratio¬ nal Soul and the Senjltive, coexiftent with- m us, and hotly contending about the con- dud of our Will > - ,, But You, Sir, will perhaps tell me, there may another, and that a more probable caufe fj!ven of thj? Boftility ^ and that the parching wit of Mon/eur des Cartes hath aeeu fo happy to difcover what it is, in . f' • de / part- r. art. 47. where he cch;S rvar°eth- “ In no other thing (faith * tween UtVn ^ rePuSnancT that is be- «t £ r -Che T',°ns which the Body by ts fpirits, and thofe which the Soul by “ her
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