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"For Mathematical Sciences, he that doubts their certainty, hath need of a dose of Hellebore."
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Joseph GlanvillWe cannot conceive how the Fœtus is formd in the Womb, nor as much as — Joseph Glanvill
"We cannot conceive how the Fœtus is formd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on; we know not how our Souls move the Body, nor how these distant and extream natures are united: ... 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
Joseph Glanvill
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Joseph Glanvill was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century. In 1661 he predicted "To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic conveyances may be as natural to
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"Though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility; there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry."
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"The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate us; since by them we know but numbers, and figures, creatures of our own, and are yet ignorant of our Makers."
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"The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden."
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"The Understanding also hath its Idiosyncrasies, as well as other faculties."
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"The Sages of old live again in us; and in opinions there is a Metempsychosis."
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