'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎152] (823/1024)

Atoms and the Mind of Man,
kdg,e openly the Nobknefs and Perfe&ion of the Spirit of Man, chofe rather to caft
thetnfdves into this extremity, than to believe it to be fo bafeand imperfect, as to be
all Body and Matter. l am far from entertaining fuch a Sentiment j you will fee in the
Letter to Mounfieur Cbapelain, that I cannot believe this to be an opinion defenfibleby
a Fhilofopher : But this 1 do, I obferve in Man, as well as thofe Stoicks and others
fomething fo perfedf, fo great and high, that #to opinion feems to me an hundred
times lefs ahfurd, than that, which holds that in Man, and'even in the whole Univerfe
there is nothing but Body, but bodily and local Motions, .but Atoms, but Matter.
Lord! When 1 think on’t, who is that man, how little of good fenfe foever he may
have, tuat can perfwade himfelf, that when an Archimedes, a Pythagoras, and others
of thofe great men, had thofe effe&s of the Mind, and were in their deep Meditations
there was then nothing in their Heads and Brains but what was Corporeal, nothing
but Vital and Animal Spirits, nothing but a certain Natural Heat, nothing but Particles
of a very fubtil Matter, or nothing but Atoms, which, though they be Infenfible, and
without all Underlhnding and Reafon, and do not fo much, ( according to the Do
ctrine of the Atomills,) as move but by a fatal and blind motion and hit, ftiould yet
come to move and concur fo luckily and wonderfully, that, as once by fuch a concourfe
they had formed the Head of thofe Great men, fuch as it is with thofe innumerable
Organs fo induftrioufly order’d and difpos’d*, fo alfo they flhould then be fo lucky as
to form and produce thofe fubtil thoughts, and profound meditations i or rather that
they (hould come to move themfelves in all thofe Organs info wonderful a manner, as at
laft to fall into a certain Order and into a certain Difpolition andmarvellous,
that they themfelves were that Conceiving, Seeing, Meditating, thofe admirable Pro-
politions, and thofe Divine Inventions ?
Add to this, when we find our felves, upon fome Affront, or other Difpleafure re
ceived, ready to fall into Choler and Rage, and yet flop our Paflion j I pray, this in
ternal Commander and Command, which we feel, this kind of Obedience, of modera
tion and retreat, thatismade, for example, upon the account of fome confideration of
Honefty, of Honour and Virtue, and again ft that natural Inclination we have to be re-
venged i what is that inteiiour motion and ffate ? Can it be rationally faid, that 5 tis
nothing but fome Rollings,. Counter-motions, Reflections, and peculiar conjunctions
and textures of Atoms or Spirits, or of little Maffes or Particles of Matter, which are
made within thofe Nerves, thofe fine Membranes, thofe very fubtil Channels and Or
gans of the Brain, Heart, and other parts of the Body ? Thefe are pure Chimeras,
A word more concerning Lztoj?: When in the apprehenfion of taking an ;//part for
a good, we keep our felves in a poyfe, feeking within our felves all the reafons that are
for and againf and ferioufly pondering and examining them i this apprehenfion, this
refearch, this ballancing, and the refolution we at lafi take to do or not to do the thing i
all that, all thofe motions, &U that inward (fate and way of Being Cl fpeak in noother
terms than they) fhall it be nothing but a fortuitous and blind concourfe of little Bodies?
Is’t pofLibk that you can imagine or perfwade your felf this? torece himfelf, that fworn
Partifan of the Epicurean Sedf, could not do it, norrefolve to attribute to Atoms alone
thofe free motions of the Will, For if the Will, faith he, is drawn away from fatality,and
raifed above Dctiiny,Et fatis avulfavoluntas,&cc,]r[ow can he,with all his clinamen ordevi-
ation of Principles, have believed in good earneft and without ferupk, that there is no
thing but and nothing done in us, more than elfewherc, but by a natural, eternal,
independent, immutable and inevitable concourfe of Atoms? He was not ignorant,
that that being fo, neither the Will, nor any other thing whatfoever could be drawn
and exempted from that concatenation and eternal and inmmutable Sequel of Motions
and Cauifes> that would follow and fucceed one another by eternal Orders abfolutely
neceffary and unchangeable.
Bcfides all this, I Could put you in mind of many Reafons that are wont to be al-
ledged upon this Subjedv You know that great man, who hath colledfed more of
tfrem than a fcore of very good ones. But that would be to abufe your Patience too
much s and frefides Ifee not,thdt there is much more of any importance to be confidered
hereupon, -than what I have lately reprefented unto you.
I could alfo tell you, how I judge that all Objections, made upon this point, may
be moil rationally anfwer’d v but I know, that you are not a perfon, for whom Books
are to be made. I fhall only mention two things to that purpofe.
Thesis, That Yis true what they fay, That Eating, Drinking, Health? Natural