In plants, in beasts, in men, while here she staid.”
(I. ii. 23.)
He next demonstrates that this soul is a self-moving substance. It is self-moving in plants, as the quickening power of the sun on vegetation shows. Through the heat of the sun the hidden centre, or soul, is called into the life of blossoming and growth.
“Thus called out by friendly sympathie
Their souls move of themselves on their Centreitie.”
(I. ii. 31.)
In animals the self-moving soul is manifested in motion and the life of sensation.
“Then be the souls of beasts self-moving forms,
Bearing their bodies as themselves think meet,
Invited or provok’d, so they transform