VI. Life-time, or the AGE of LIVING Creatures, (as particularly applied to Men,VI. AGE. to which there is something answerable in other Ani∣mals; to which may be adjoyned the word SECULUM, Age, Estate, Generation,) is, according to common use, distinguished by such Terms as do denote the gradual differences of it.The first and most imperfect State, when ‖ destitute of the use of reason: or having but little use of it▪ comprehending the two first ten years. 1.INFANCY, Babe, Child, Cub.CHILDHOOD, Boy, Girl, Wench, green years·The less imperfect Age, subject to the sway of Passions; ‖ either more, or less, containing the third and fourth ten years. 2.ADOLESCENCY, adult, Lad, Springal, Stripling, Youth, Lass, Da∣mosel, Wench.YOUTH, Iuvenile, Younker.The perfect Age as to the Body: or the declining Age of the Body, but most perfect for the Mind, styled vergens aetas, or the Age of Wisdom; the former comprehending the space betwixt the 40th and the 50th, and the latter containing the space betwixt the 50th and the 60th year. 3.MANHOOD, virile, middle age.DECLINING AGE, elderly.The last and most imperfect Age, by reason of the decay of Vigor, which commonly happens both in Body and Mind, ‖ either according to the first and better part of it: or the last and worst part of this State, reaching from the 60th to the 70th, and from thence for the time after. 4.OLD AGE.DECREPIDNESS, Crone.CHAP. VIII. Concerning the Predicament of Quality; the several Genus's belonging to it, namely, I. Natural Power. II. Habit. III. Manners. IV. Sensible quality. V. Disease; with the various Differences and Species under each of these.WHether many of those things now called Quality, be not reducible to Motion and Figure, and the Situation of the parts of Bodies, is a question which I shall not at present consider. 'Tis sufficient that the par∣ticulars here specified are most commonly known and apprehended un∣der that notion as they are here represented, and are still like to be called by the same names, whatever new Theory may be found out of the causes of them.The several Genus's under this Predicament are such kinds of Quali∣ties as are either Internal; whether Innate; NATURAL POWER.Superinduced; considered more Generally; styled by the common name of HABIT.Specially; with respect to the customary Actions of men considered as voluntary MANNERS.External; denoting either Those more general affections of bodies which are the objects of sense. SENSIBLE QUALITY.Those special impotencies of living bodies, whereby they are disabled for their natural functions. SICKNESS.0