The Materials of Bodies , if you examine them, are strangly Coarse : Those that are Animated have little in them but Water, and Dust, and Bones, and something that's offensive. And then if you go to Mettals, Minerals &c. Marble is no more than a Callous Excrescence, nor Gold and Silver any better than the Dregs and Sediment of the Earth. Fine Cloths are nothing but Hair twisted together; and smear'd with the Blood of a little Fish. ¹⁵ And thus I might Proceed farther. And as for Spirits, they are somewhat of Kin to the rest, and are Chased from one Figure to another. ¹⁶