Note 71 — Chapter II · THE ANIMATE WORLD

II. 250. ‘Principio vero distinguendum inter Animam Hominis Animaliumque aliorum est: et cum operosior res sit circa Animam Hominis, ideo videtur prius dicendum de caeterorum Anima, ut de qua Mentis immortalis experte et philosophari liberius, et falli minore cum periculo liceat.’ It should be noted (1) that Gassendi expressly says he will take for examination the Anima, ‘quae sit in perfecto, sanguineo, respiranteque animali,’ and what is said of this will be true of all; (2) that Gassendi obviously thinks that what is said about the Anima not conjoined with Mens will be true of the composite Anima and mind. In both cases therefore the difference is in the function, not the substance, for, as nothing is subtracted in lower forms, so nothing is added in the higher.