"We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd……" — Joseph Glanvill
"We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers."
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Joseph Glanvill
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12 Quotes by Joseph Glanvill
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What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
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And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God…
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And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the…
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That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility…
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The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
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The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ;…
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Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble…
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To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times…
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Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
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That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our…
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