OF DAEMONOLOGY, AND OTHER RELIQUES OF THE RELIGION OF THE GENTILES 46.

OF DARKNESSE FROM VAINE PHILOSOPHY, AND FABULOUS TRADITIONS 47.

OF THE BENEFIT PROCEEDING FROM SUCH DARKNESSE; AND TO WHOM IT ACCREWETH 48.

A REVIEW AND CONCLUSION THE INTRODUCTION.
Nature (the art whereby God hath made and governes the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the begining whereof is in some principall part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheeles as doth a watch) have an artificiall life?
For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?
Art goes yet further, imitating that Rationall and most excellent worke of Nature, Man.