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.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. - Joseph Glanvill
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
- Joseph Glanvill
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. - Joseph Glanvill
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. - Joseph Glanvill
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. - Joseph Glanvill
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion its… - Joseph Glanvill
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion its…
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie. - Joseph Glanvill
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. - Joseph Glanvill
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. - Joseph Glanvill
Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things … - Joseph Glanvill
And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things …
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