who makes use of different ways and things, according to the difference of the Creatures he intends to catch.  Now the Soldiers Weapons are some of ’em defensive and offensive, and the Sportsman’s too are some for Land, and some for Water:  So the Anatomists Instruments, are some for Fission, others for Fraction, and others for Perforation.  And thus tho’ the Body was One, yet that governing Spirit made use of it several ways, according to the respective uses of each Member, and the several ends which it propos’d to obtain.

Sec. 29.  Thus he perceiv’d that there was all this while but One Animal Spirit, whose Action when he made use of the Eye, was Sight; when of the Ear, Hearing; when of the Nose, Smelling; when of the Tongue, Tasting; and when of the Skin and Flesh, Feeling.  When it employ’d any Limb, then its Operation was Motion; and when it made use of the Liver, Nutrition and Concoction.  And that, tho’ there were Members fitted to every one of these uses, yet none of them could perform their respective Offices, without having Correspondence with that Spirit, by means of the Nerves; and that if at any time it chanc’d that their passages were either broken off or obstructed, such a Member would be altogether useless.  Now these; Nerves derive this Spirit from the Brain, which has it from the Heart (and contains abundance of Spirit, because it is divided into a great many partitions) and by what means soever any limb is depriv’d of his Spirit, it’s Action ceases, and ’tis like a cast off Tool, not fit for use.  And if this Spirit depart wholly from the Body, or is consum’d or dissolv’d by any means whatsoever, then the whole Body is depriv’d of Motion all at once, and reduced to a State of Death.

Sec. 30.  Thus far had his Observations brought him about the end of the Third Seventh Year of his Age, viz. when he was One and Twenty Years Old.  In which time, he had made abundance of pretty Contrivances.  He made himself both Cloaths and Shoes of the Skins of such Wild Beasts as he had dissected.  His thread was made of Hair, and of the Bark of the Stalks of Althaea, Mallows or any other Plants, which afforded such Strings as were fit for that purpose.  He learn’d the making of these threads from the use which he had made of the Rushes before.  He made Awls of sharp Thorns, and Splinters of Cane, sharpned with Flints.  He learn’d the Art of Building, from the Observations he made upon the Swallows Nests.  He Builds himself a Store-house and a Pantry, to lay up the remainder of his Provision in:  and made a Door to it of Canes twisted together, to prevent any of the Beasts getting in, during his absence.  He took Birds of prey and brought them up for Hawking; and kept tame

Poultry for their Eggs and Chickens.  He took the tips of the Buffalo’s Horns and fastned them upon the strongest Canes he could get, and Staves of the Tree Alzan and Others; and so, partly by the help of the Fire, and partly of sharp edg’d Stones, he so fitted them that they serv’d him instead of so many Spears.  He made him a shield of Hides folded together.  All this pains he took to furnish himself with Artificial Weapons, because he found himself destitute of Natural ones.