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 required in any other: and therefore the same objection may lye against the Constitution of the brain it self, which consists of soft medullary Fibres that are however fit enough to receive or propagate any motion, and whilst they are fill'd with Animal spirits may be allow'd to have the like Tensness, or resistance that a lock of Wool has, or a Spider's Web. And if I may be admitted to carry on the similitudes; As that little Animal in the Centre of its soft circumtended Fibres is sensible of the least gale of Wind, or is alarum'd by the least noise or touches of its prey or of an enemy from any Quarter, by the delicate expansion of its Fibres: So may the Soul much more (in the common sensory) being surrounded by Fibrillæ of expanded Nerves and of a finer make, apprehend from what Quarter the several motions come from abroad, and more minutely perceive the difference of 'em in respect of the diverse Organs of sense and the different fineness or tension of those Nerves that belong to the same.

Ome faults being committed by the Press in the Previous Discourse to this, in the Philos. Collections, ''Numb. 6''. may be thus corrected. Pag. 170, lin. 29, for even and sight, read even and in situ. p. 173. l. 28, for sight. r. site. In the Margents of pag. 170. 173. 176. to Fig. 1, add the Characters i, i.