of Bridles and Saddles, he could very easily then overtake such Beasts,
as he could scarce ever have been able to have catch'd any other manner
of way. He made all these discoveries whilst he was employed in the
Study of Anatomy, and the searching out of the Properties, peculiar to
each Part, and the difference between them; and all this about that time
I speak of, _viz_. of the Age of 21 Years.

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§ 32. He then proceeded further to examin the Nature of Bodies in this
Sublunary World, _viz_. The different kinds of Animal, Plants, Minerals,
and several sorts of Stones, Earth, Water, Exhalations, Ice, Snow, Hail,
Smoak, Hoar, Frost, Flame, and Heat. In which he observ'd different
Qualities, and different Actions, and that their Motions agreed in some
respects, and differ'd in others: and considering these things with
great Application, he perceiv'd that their Qualities also agreed in some
things, and differ'd in others; and that so far as they agreed, they
were _One_; but when consider'd with Relation to their differences, _a
great many_: so that when he came to consider the Properties of things
by which they were distinguish'd one from another,he found that they
Multiplied so fast upon him, that 'twas impossible for him, to
Comprehend them. Nay, when he consider'd the difference of his own
Limbs, which he perceiv'd were all distinct from one another, by some
Property and Action peculiar to each, it seem'd to him that there was a
_Plurality_ in his Own Essence. And when he look'd upon any one Member
it self, he found that it might be divided into a great many parts, from