The Religious Philosopher, Or, the Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator (Volume 3); I. in the Wonderful Structure of Animal Bodies, and ... Effects Upon Animal and Vegetable Bodies, a - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1719. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... their Fat as well as their Lean Bodies might and ought to be denominated their visible and own Bodies. Sect. XXXI. The own Body, tho' allowed to be a Stamen, with an Accretion of foreign Matter, consists of nothing else but of solid Particles, and chiefly of Bones. XVIII. Before we proceed, it must be here again obscrv'd, that the own Body of a Man, tho' consisting of a Stamen, increased with other Mai ters is, as has been already hinted, only composed of Solid Parts; forasmuch as the Fluids and the Laws are daily changed, and the last of 'em do entirely cease at the Time of our Death. Moreover, since a visible Body, tho' reduced to such a Leanness as we have just now shewn, may continue to be the visible Body, having never been entirely deprived of its Fluids during its Leanness, the own Body must be still less in Matter than the emaciated visible Body. Finally, that this own Body does consequently consist of nothing else but Bones and Nerves, of which likewise the Membranes, and of them the Tubes of the Flesh are composed, (See Contemplation XI. Sett. XVII.) and the faid Flesh, when the Blood and Humours are separated from it, is so very small a Part of the visible Body, that it can hardly be seen, nor even felt externally in the greatest Leanness; so that from hertce it appears, that the real own Body.does chiefly consist of mere Bones. Sect. XXXII. The Three Objections mentioned in Sect. XIV. solved upon the Supposition, that the own Body does consist of a Stamen increased to a certain Bigness. XIX. Now in order to solve the former Objections likewise from this Second Principle, of which mention has been made in Sell. XXIV, Suppose a Child to die, if it be to be raised again as a Child, it is unquestionable that it puts off by Death its own Body in the...

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