inanimate things, (_viz_. all Bodies, besides Plants and Animals, which
are in this sublunary World) something peculiar to them, by the Power of
which, every one of them perform'd such _Actions_ as were proper to it;
namely, various sorts of Motion, and different kinds of sensible
Qualities, and that thing was the Form of every one of them, and this is
the same which the Philosophers call _Nature_.

§ 43. And when by this Contemplation it appear'd to him plainly, that
the true Essence of that _Animal Spirit_, which he had been so intent,
was compounded of Corporeity, and some other Quality superadded to that
Corporeity, and that it had its Corporeity in common with other Bodies;
but that this other Quality which was superadded, was peculiar to it
self: Immediately he slighted and despis'd the Notion of Corporeity, and
applied himself wholly to that other superadded Quality (which is the
same that we call the _Soul_) the Nature of which he earnestly desired
to know. Therefore he fix'd all his Thoughts upon it, and began his
Contemplation with considering all Bodies, not as Bodies, but as endu'd
with _Forms_, from whence necessarily flow these Properties, by which
they are distinguish'd one from another.

§ 44. Now by following up this Notion, and comprehending it in his Mind,
he perceiv'd that all Bodies had one _Form_ in common, from whence one
or more Actions did proceed. And that there were some of these, which
tho' they agreed with all the rest in that one common Form, had another
Form besides superadded to it, from whence some Actions proceeded. And
further, that there was another sort, which agreeing with the rest in
those two Forms which they had, was still distinguish'd from them by a
third Form, superadded to those other two, from whence also proceeded
some Actions. For instance, all Terrestrial Bodies, as Earth, Stones,
Minerals, Plants, Animals, and all other heavy Bodies, do make up one in