with phantasy, his seat and organ the back part of the brain.
_Affections of the Senses, sleep and waking._] The affections of these
senses are sleep and waking, common to all sensible creatures. Sleep is
a rest or binding of the outward senses, and of the common sense, for
the preservation of body and soul (as Scaliger [990]defines it); for
when the common sense resteth, the outward senses rest also. The
phantasy alone is free, and his commander reason: as appears by those
imaginary dreams, which are of divers kinds, natural, divine,
demoniacal, &c., which vary according to humours, diet, actions,
objects, &c., of which Artemidorus, Cardanus, and Sambucus, with their
several interpretators, have written great volumes. This litigation of
senses proceeds from an inhibition of spirits, the way being stopped by
which they should come; this stopping is caused of vapours arising out
of the stomach, filling the nerves, by which the spirits should be
conveyed. When these vapours are spent, the passage is open, and the
spirits perform their accustomed duties: so that waking is the action
and motion of the senses, which the spirits dispersed over all parts
cause.
SUBSECT. VIII.—_Of the Moving Faculty_.
_Appetite_] This moving faculty is the other power of the sensitive
soul, which causeth all those inward and outward animal motions in the
body. It is divided into two faculties, the power of appetite, and of
moving from place to place. This of appetite is threefold, so some will
have it; natural, as it signifies any such inclination, as of a stone
to fall downward, and such actions as retention, expulsion, which
depend not on sense, but are vegetal, as the appetite of meat and
drink; hunger and thirst. Sensitive is common to men and brutes.
Voluntary, the third, or intellective, which commands the other two in
men, and is a curb unto them, or at least should be, but for the most
part is captivated and overruled by them; and men are led like beasts
by sense, giving reins to their concupiscence and several lusts. For by
this appetite the soul is led or inclined to follow that good which the
senses shall approve, or avoid that which they hold evil: his object
being good or evil, the one he embraceth, the other he rejecteth;
according to that aphorism, Omnia appetunt bonum, all things seek their
own good, or at least seeming good. This power is inseparable from
sense, for where sense is, there are likewise pleasure and pain. His
organ is the same with the common sense, and is divided into two
powers, or inclinations, concupiscible or irascible: or (as one [991]
translates it) coveting, anger invading, or impugning. Concupiscible
covets always pleasant and delightsome things, and abhors that which is
distasteful, harsh, and unpleasant. Irascible, quasi [992] aversans per
iram et odium, as avoiding it with anger and indignation. All
affections and perturbations arise out of these two fountains, which,
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