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ruptible, a&longs;well as the Elementary, what will you &longs;ay then?</s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>I will &longs;ay you have done that which is impo&longs;&longs;ible to <lb/>
be done.</s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Go to; tell me, <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius,<emph.end type="italics"/> are not the&longs;e affections <lb/>
contrary to one another?</s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. Which?</s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Why the&longs;e; Alterable, unalterable; pa&longs;&longs;ible, ^{*} impa&longs;&shy; <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg84"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
&longs;ible; generable, ingenerable; corruptible, incorruptible?</s></p>

<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg84"></margin.target>* <emph type="italics"/>Or,<emph.end type="italics"/> Impatible.</s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>They are mo&longs;t contrary.</s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Well then, if this be true, and it be al&longs;o granted, <lb/>
that C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies are ingenerable and incorruptible; I prove <lb/>
that of nece&longs;&longs;ity C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies mu&longs;t be generable and corru&shy; <lb/>
ptible.</s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>This mu&longs;t needs be a <emph type="italics"/>Sophi&longs;m.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Hear my Argument, and then cen&longs;ure and re&longs;olve it. <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg85"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies, for that they are ingenerable and incorruptible, <lb/>
have in Nature their contraries, which are tho&longs;e Bodies that be <lb/>
generable and corruptible; but where there is contrariety, there <lb/>
is al&longs;o generation and corruption; therefore C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies are <lb/>
generable and corruptible.</s></p>

<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg85"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>C&oelig;lestial Bodies <lb/>
are generable and <lb/>
corruptible, be&shy; <lb/>
cau&longs;e they are in&shy; <lb/>
generable and in&shy; <lb/>
corruptible.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>Did I not &longs;ay it could be no other than a <emph type="italics"/>Sophi&longs;m<emph.end type="italics"/>? <lb/>
</s><s>This is one of tho&longs;e forked Arguments called <emph type="italics"/>Sorit&aelig;<emph.end type="italics"/>: like that <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg86"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
of the <emph type="italics"/>Cretan,<emph.end type="italics"/> who &longs;aid that all <emph type="italics"/>Cretans<emph.end type="italics"/> were lyars; but he as <lb/>
being a <emph type="italics"/>Cretan,<emph.end type="italics"/> had told a lye, in &longs;aying that the <emph type="italics"/>Cretans<emph.end type="italics"/> were ly&shy; <lb/>
ars; it followed therefore, that the <emph type="italics"/>Cretans<emph.end type="italics"/> were no lyars, and <lb/>
con&longs;equently that he, as being a <emph type="italics"/>Cretan,<emph.end type="italics"/> had &longs;poke truth: And <lb/>
yet in &longs;aying the <emph type="italics"/>Cretans<emph.end type="italics"/> were lyars, he had &longs;aid true, and com&shy; <lb/>
prehending him&longs;elf as a <emph type="italics"/>Cretan,<emph.end type="italics"/> he mu&longs;t con&longs;equently be a lyar. <lb/>
</s><s>And thus in the&longs;e kinds of <emph type="italics"/>Sophi&longs;ms<emph.end type="italics"/> a man may dwell to eternity, <lb/>
and never come to any conclu&longs;ion.</s></p>

<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg86"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The forked Syllo&shy; <lb/>
gi&longs;m cal'd<emph.end type="italics"/> <foreign lang="greek">*cwri/ths.</foreign></s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>You have hitherto cen&longs;ured it, it remaineth now that <lb/>
you an&longs;wer it, &longs;hewing the fallacie.</s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>As to the re&longs;olving of it, and finding out its fallacie, <lb/>
do you not in the fir&longs;t place &longs;ee a manife&longs;t contradiction in it? <lb/>
</s><s>C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies are ingenerable and incorruptible; <emph type="italics"/>Ergo,<emph.end type="italics"/> C&oelig;le&shy; <lb/>
&longs;tial Bodies are generable and corruptible. </s><s>And again, the con&shy; <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg87"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
trariety is not betwixt the C&oelig;le&longs;tial Bodies, but betwixt the E&shy; <lb/>
lements, which have the contrariety of the Motions, <emph type="italics"/>&longs;ur&longs;&ugrave;m<emph.end type="italics"/> and <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>deor&longs;&ugrave;m,<emph.end type="italics"/> and of levity and gravity; But the Heavens which move <lb/>
circularly, to which motion no other motion is contrary, want <lb/>
contrariety, and therefore they are incorruptible.</s></p>

<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg87"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Among&longs;t C&oelig;le&longs;tial <lb/>
Bodies there is no <lb/>
contrariety.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>

<p type="main"><s>SAGR. </s><s>Fair and &longs;oftly, <emph type="italics"/>Simplicius<emph.end type="italics"/>; this contrariety whereby <lb/>
you &longs;ay &longs;ome &longs;imple Bodies become corruptible, re&longs;ides it in the <lb/>
&longs;ame Body which is corrupted, or el&longs;e hath it relation to &longs;ome o&shy; <lb/>
other? </s><s>I &longs;ay, for example, the humidity by which a piece of Earth