To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

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.

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.