CONSENT OF VISIBLES, and Audibles.
[ 255] BOth of them spread themselues in Round, and fill a whole Floare or Orbe, vnto certaine Limits: And are carried a great way: And doe languish and lessen by degrees, according to the Distance of the Obiects from the Sensories.
[ 256] Both of them haue the whole Species in euery small Portion of the Aire, or Medium; So as the Species doe passe through small Crannies, without Confusion: As we see ordinarily in Leuels, as to the Eye; And in Cran∣nies, or Chinks, as to the Sound.
[ 257] Both of them are of a sudden and easie Generation and Delation; And likewise perish swiftly, and suddenly; As if you remoue the Light; Or touch the Bodies that giue the Sound.
[ 258] Both of them doe receiue and carry exquisite and accurate Differences; As of Colours, Figures, Motions, Distances, in Visibles; And of Articu∣late Voices, Tones, Songs, and Quauerings, in Audibles.
[ 259] Both of them in their Vertue and Working, doe not appeare to emit any Corporall Substance into their Mediums, or the Orbe of their Vertue; Neither againe to raise or stirre any euident locall Motion in their Mediums, as they passe; But only to carrry certaine Spirituall Species; The Perfect Knowledge of the Cause whereof, being hitherto scarcely attained, wee shall search and handle in due place.
[ 260] Both of them seeme not to generate or produce any other Effect in Na∣ture,