Ib.
The æquivocall production of things, under undiscerned principles,
makes a large part of generation, &c.
Written before Harvey's 'ab ovo omnia'. Since his work, and Lewenhock's 'Microscopium', the question is settled in physics; but whether in metaphysics, is not quite so clear.
Ch. IV.
And mint growing in glasses of water, until it arriveth at the weight
of an ounce, in a shady place, will sometimes exhaust a pound of
water.
How much did Brown allow for evaporation?
Ib.
Things entering upon the intellect by a pyramid from without, and
thence into the memory by another from within, the common decussation
being in the understanding, &c.
This nearly resembles Kant's intellectual 'mechanique'.
The Platonists held three knowledges of God;—first, {Greek: parousia}, his own incommunicable self-comprehension;—second, {Greek: kata noaesin}—by pure mind, unmixed with the sensuous;—third, {Greek: kat epistaemaen}—by discursive intelligential act. Thus a Greek philosopher:—{Greek: tous epistaemonikous logous muthous haegaesetai sunousa t'o patri kai sunesti'omenae hae psuchae en tae alaetheia tou ontos, kai en augae kathara}.—Those notions of God which we attain by processes of intellect, the soul will consider as mythological allegories, when it exists in union with the Father, and is feasting with him in the truth of very being, and in the pure, unmixed, absolutely simple and elementary, splendor. Thus expound Exod. c. xxxiii. v. 10. 'And he said, thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live'. By the 'face of God,' Moses meant the {Greek: idea noaetikae} which God declared incompatible with human life, it implying {Greek: epaphae tou noaetou}, or contact with the pure spirit.