Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)

A Discourse Upon the Nature and Faculties of Man

London

Printed for Jacob Tonson

1686, 1689, 1697

"How doth Reason exert it self by little and little, what Helps and Arts are there us'd to make the Flower open and shew it self to the World?"

True it is, the Rational Soul, if I may speak it without a Solecisme, is so incorporated into the Animal, that it seems to have its Birth and Growth with it. How doth Reason exert it self by little and little, what Helps and Arts are there us'd to make the Flower open and shew it self to the World? What Struglings and Conflicts are there betwixt the Animal Inclinations, and the more masculine Dictates of Reason? A sure Demonstration that they cannot proceed from one and the same immediate Impulse of Nature. The Sense and Notions we have of Reputation, of Justice, of Commerce, of Patience, and Moderation, with infinite other things relating to the moral Capacity, have no analogy with the Actions and Sentiments of Beasts, tho never so sagacious and well instructed; what then shall we say of the Intellectual Operations, and of the immense Capacity of the Mind?
(p. 6)

Plant::Flower

Reading in EEBO-TCP

3 editions in ODNB, 2 found in ESTC (1686, 1689, 1697).

See Timothy Nourse, A Discourse Upon the Nature and Faculties of Man in Several Essayes With Some Considerations of Humane Life (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge’s Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-street, 1686). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO-TCP>

03/11/2016