nam cum multo sunt animae elementa minora quam quibus e corpus nobis et viscera constant, tum numero quoque concedunt et rara per artus dissita sunt; dumtaxat ut hoc promittere possis, quantula prima queant nobis iniecta ciere corpora sensiferos motus in corpore, tanta intervalla tenere exordia prima animai.
For, as the elements of spirit are much smaller than those which compose our body and flesh, so they are fewer also in number and are dispersed at rare intervals through the frame; so that at least you may safely say that the first-beginnings of spirit lie at such intervals apart as equal the smallest things which falling upon us are able to awaken sense-bringing motions in our body.
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