Chap. 73. Of repeating one and the same work, and of varieties.
NAture may repeat one and the same creature if she plea∣seth, that is, the same motions, on the same matter, may create the same creature, by reason the same motions, and the same matter, is eternally in the body infinite: thus the Origi∣nal cause of producing one and the same is eternal, by reason nothing in nature can be annihilated, and though the infinite matter is but one and the same, yet the infinite part of innated matter, moves infinite several wayes, and by reason of the diversity of motion, there is such varietie, as seldom any two creatures are alike, for motion delights in variety, not so much in the different kindes, as in the particular creatures, which makes me think that motion is bound by the nature of the matter, to make such kindes; Although it be at liberty for particulars, and yet the several kindes may be as infinite as the particulars; as for example, although motion is bound to Animal kinde, Vegetable kinde, Mineral kinde, and also to