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Phys. , p 190) 11 I may adduce to the same purport GLANVILLE, who, in his Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661, p 88 sq), and in his Scepsis Scientifica (1665, p 65 sq), though a professed, and not over scrupulous antagonist of Aristotle, acknowledges, in reference to the present question, that the Peripatetic philosophy teaches us, that Heat is not in the body of the sun, as formally considered, but only virtually, and as in its cause? I do not know whether Glanville had Aquinas specially in view ; but the same general statement and particular example are to be found in the Summa contra Gentes, L cc. 29, 31, of the Angelic Doctor. 12 It is remarkable that Mr BOYLE S speculations in regard to the classification of corporeal Qualities should have been wholly overlooked in reference to the present subject ; and this not only on account of their intrinsic importance, but because they proba bly suggested to Locke the nomenclature which he has adopted, but, in adopting, has deformed. In his treatise entitled The origin of Forms and Qualities, published at Oxford in 1666, Boyle denominates Matter and Mo tion the most Catholic Principles of bodies. prev next |