9.36

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

Translator Notes

  1. 15.
    This made the Purple Dye.
  2. 16.
    The Stoicks held the Soul a Composition of Fire and Air, and by consequence it must be corruptible.