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# Title: Renati Des-Cartes Tractatus De Homine, Et De Formatione Foetus (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 178, Stück 4; Leibn. Marg. 178)
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P R A F A T IO.
rae, ut illa, licaftira; Scd ejus machina cum inmo-
dum sic dispolica, ut incedere queac, non mirum est
(i, quando ejus corpus cibo indiget, actio, quam ilta
indisentia ad cerebrum ulque mittir, adeo riam Epi
ricibus aperiat, uc propria sponte mulculos ingre-
diantur, qui ipsum progredi ac nutrimentum luum
quaerere TaciunE. FC magis admiratione dionum
quidem mihi videtur, tacere Machinam, qua utique
in eotum facta fuit, ut nemo dubitat, sinc ulla ani-
ma communione, hoc est, linclentu, e coonitio-
ne, quamtacere, ut incedat, quando jam facta est.
quoniam co tota est dispolica.
Jam vero, li, quando canis luum hocmodo quae-
rit nutrimentum, ei panis Frultum exhribeatur, cujus
vilio rim habet ejus cerebrum ca ratione movendi,
qua requiritur, uc ad cdendum incicetur; e licopa-
eto exhribeatur, ut sine laltu illud actingere negueat,
an nonnecesse cA, ut lalcet: Ouid miri superaddie
hric lalcus inquilitioni, quam jam ancea taciebat lui
nutrimenti: An, quicquid in le continet lpirituum,
e partium mobilium, iplum ad ictam actionemnon
impellune, ab (que ullo accedente anima ministerio:
Praccica, quam mulci huntinnobismotus, quos
nonanimadrertimus, e quinon nili actiones Ma-
china nostri corporis lunt. Aliquis per plateam in-
CediE, IMaGnO CuipIaM HESOLIOINTENEUS. PFIO IN-
cessus, quem Facit, non clt. nili a COrPOTC, PEatOr
Quam.