&longs;on of its great re&longs;i&longs;tance to the divi&longs;ion made by the hull of the <lb/>
&longs;hip, doth with great noi&longs;e re&longs;i&longs;t the &longs;ame; nor doth it permit it <lb/>
of a great while to acquire that velocity which the wind would <lb/>
confer upon it, were the ob&longs;tacle of the water removed. </s><s>Per <lb/>
haps <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/> you have never con&longs;idered with what fury the <lb/>
water be&longs;ets a bark, whil'&longs;t it forceth its way through a &longs;tanding <lb/>
water by help of Oars or Sails: for if you had ever minded that <lb/>
effect, you would not now have produced &longs;uch an ab&longs;urdity. <lb/>
</s><s>And I am thinking that you have hitherto been one of tho&longs;e who <lb/>
to find out how &longs;uch things &longs;ucceed, and to come to the know <lb/>
ledg of natural effects, do not betake them&longs;elves to a Ship, a <lb/>
Cro&longs;&longs;e-bow, or a piece of Ordinance, but retire into their &longs;tu <lb/>
dies, and turn over Indexes and Tables to &longs;ee whether <emph type="italics"/>Aristotle<emph.end type="italics"/> <lb/>
hath &longs;poken any thing thereof, and being a&longs;&longs;ured of the true <lb/>
&longs;en&longs;e of the Text, neither de&longs;ire nor care for knowing any <lb/>
more. <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg357"></arrow.to.target></s>

<s><margin.target id="marg357"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The great feli <lb/>
city for which they <lb/>
are much to be en <lb/>
vied who per&longs;wade <lb/>
them&longs;elves that <lb/>
they know every <lb/>
thing.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>This is a great felicity, and they are to be much en <lb/>
vied for it. </s><s>For if knowledg be de&longs;ired by all, and if to be wi&longs;e, <lb/>
be to think ones &longs;elf &longs;o, they enjoy a very great happine&longs;&longs;e, for <lb/>
that they may per&longs;wade them&longs;elves that they know and under&longs;tand <lb/>
all things, in &longs;corn of tho&longs;e who knowing, that they under&longs;tand <lb/>
not what the&longs;e think they under&longs;tand, and con&longs;equently &longs;eeking <lb/>
that they know not the very lea&longs;t particle of what is knowable, <lb/>
kill them&longs;elves with waking and &longs;tudying, and con&longs;ume their days <lb/>
in experiments and ob&longs;ervations. </s><s>But pray you let us return to <lb/>
our birds; touching which you have &longs;aid, that the Air being mo <lb/>
ved with great velocity, might re&longs;tore unto them that part of the <lb/>
diurnal motion which among&longs;t the windings of their flight they <lb/>
might have lo&longs;t; to which I reply, that the agitated Air &longs;eemeth <lb/>
unable to confer on a &longs;olid and grave body, &longs;o great a velocity as <lb/>
its own: And becau&longs;e that of the Air is as great as that of the <lb/>
Earth, I cannot think that the Air is able to make good the lo&longs;&longs;e <lb/>
of the birds retardation in flight.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Your di&longs;cour&longs;e hath in it much of probability, and to <lb/>
&longs;tick at trivial doubts is not for an acute wit; yet neverthele&longs;&longs;e the <lb/>
probability being removed, I believed that it hath not a jot more <lb/>
force than the others already con&longs;idered and re&longs;olved.</s>

<s>SAGR. </s><s>It is mo&longs;t certain that if it be not nece&longs;&longs;atily conclu <lb/>
dent, its efficacy mu&longs;t needs be ju&longs;t nothing at all, for it is <lb/>
onely when the conclu&longs;ion is nece&longs;&longs;ary that the opponent hath no <lb/>
thing to alledg on the contrary.</s>

<s>SALV. </s><s>Your making a greater &longs;cruple of this than of the other <lb/>
in&longs;tances dependeth, if I mi&longs;take not, upon the birds being ani <lb/>
mated, and thereby enabled to u&longs;e their &longs;trength at plea&longs;ure a <lb/>
gain&longs;t the primary motion in-bred in terrene bodies: like as for