We Are To Admit No More Causes

The Changing Of Bodies Into Light, And Light Into Bodies, Is Very Conformable To The Course Of Nature, Which Seems Delighted With Transmutations.

A Man May Imagine Things That Are False, But He Can Only Understand Things That Are True, For If The Things Be False, The Apprehension Of Them Is Not Understanding.

I See I Have Made Myself A Slave To Philosophy, But If I Get Free Of Mr. Linus's Business I Will Resolutely Bid Adew To It Eternally, Excepting For What I Do For My Private Satisfaction Or Leave To Come Out After Me. For I See A Man Must Either Resolve To Put Out Nothing New Or To Become A Slave To Defend It.

Thus This Earth Resembles A Great Animall Or Rather An Inanimate Vegetable, Draws In Aethereal Breath For Its Dayly Refreshment And Vitall Ferment And Transpires Again Grosses Exhalations. And, According To The Condition Of All Other Things Living, Ought To Have Its Time Of Beginning, Youth, Old Age And Perishing.

If Others Would Think As Hard As I Did, Then They Would Get Similar Results.