The five days debate at Cicero's house in Tusculum between master and sophister.

SECT. VIII. Nor vanish.

AS for Dicaearchus, with Aristoxenus his Con∣temporary and Fellow-Pupil, let them pass for great Scholars, the one of which seems never to have had compassion, or he would have been sensible that he had a Soul; the other is so trans∣ported with his Tunes, that he would forcibly ap∣ply them to the Matters in hand. Now we can collect Harmony from the distance of sounds; the setting of which notes in due proportion pro∣duces also variety of Tunes: But, what Musick the posture of the Limbs, and the shape of the Body destitute of a Soul, can produce, I compre∣hend not. He would do well therefore, Scholar as he is, to leave these Matters to his Master Ari∣stotle, and content himself with teaching to Fiddle. For that is good direction which is given in the Greek Proverb.

Let each man practice th' Art in which he's skill'd.

But turn we quite out of doors that casual con∣course of smooth and round Bodies; which yet Democritus would have to conceive heat and be∣come spiritous, that is, having Life. Now the Soul in this case, (which if it consists of any of the four Elements, whereof all things are said to be compounded, hath for its ingredients inflam'd Air, to which opinion Panaetius was most inclinable)

must mount upwards; for these two Elements have nothing in them tending downward, but al∣wayes ascend so, whether they scatter in the Air; it must be far from falling to the Earth; or, whe∣ther they continue, and subsist in a separate Estate, they must of more necessity mount up to Heaven, forcing their passage through this gross and impure Air, which is nearest the Earth; for the Soul is hotter, or rather more fiery than is this Air, which I just now call'd gross and impure.