Neither in any if the stars, nor in the sun, nor in the planets that are most operant in the world, can organs be distinguished or imagined by us; nevertheless, they live and endow with life small bodies at the earth's elevated points. If there is aught of which man may boast, that of a surety is soul, is mind; and the other animals, too, are ennobled by soul; even God, by whose rod all things are governed, is soul.


As quoted in Gilbert, William. 2013 ed. De Magnete. Courier Corporation, pp. 130-131 - De Magnete (1600)

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Neither in any if the stars, nor in the sun, nor in the planets that are most operant in the world, can organs be distinguished or imagined by us;...

Neither in any if the stars, nor in the sun, nor in the planets that are most operant in the world, can organs be distinguished or imagined by us;...

Neither in any if the stars, nor in the sun, nor in the planets that are most operant in the world, can organs be distinguished or imagined by us;...

Neither in any if the stars, nor in the sun, nor in the planets that are most operant in the world, can organs be distinguished or imagined by us;...