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above.) Again, Borelli hath observed, thatthe foul acquires the habit of moving the partsof the body, and of sending the animalspiritsinto this rather than the other part, by fre-quent trials and experiment ; and this is cer-tainly true with respect to man: we see suchhabits acquired in many cafes, after we areadult; though less true with respect to brutes,as shall elsewhere be remarked. How is itpossible then, it should preserve this art atthat time; or not be disturbed in the practiceof it, by such a hurry, and commotion, ofthese animal spirits, or whatever other sub-tile matter it employs to this end, when allthe fluids in the body are in such a hubbuband disorder ? There is rather a necessitythat the legs should stagger: all these disor-ders, instead of being objections, are directconsequences of a soft and yielding sensory,of fluids and animal spirits, easily put in mo-tion, or disturbed in their motion. Andhere I leave it to be considered, if the soulwere a certain subiile matter, as is pretendedby some; whether such a rapid intestine mo-tion and jumble would not dissipate it into sthousand atoms, and the least disorder of th* 5

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