Ignace-Gaston Pardies citations

Ignace-Gaston Pardies, né le 5 septembre 1636 à Pau et mort à Paris le 21 avril 1674, est un prêtre jésuite français, physicien adepte du mécanisme, quoiqu'il se défendît de cartésianisme. Correspondant d'Isaac Newton, il fut l'un des pionniers de la théorie ondulatoire de la lumière, qu'il identifiait à une vibration harmonique. Wikipedia

✵ 5. septembre 1636 – 22. avril 1673

Ignace-Gaston Pardies: Citations en anglais

“If you once admit that all that is most wonderful in the actions of beasts, may be done by means of a material soul; will you not soon grant what follows, and say, that all that passes in man may be also done by a material soul? … If you once grant that beasts, without any spiritual soul, are capable of thinking, of acting for an end, of foreseeing things to come, of remembering what is past, of acquiring experience by the particular reflection they make upon it; why will you not grant that men are capable of exercising their functions without any spiritual soul?”

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Ignace-Gaston Pardies

On the Cognition of Beasts (De la connoissance des bestes, 1672); quoted in Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697), London, 1737, vol. 4, ch. Rorarius, p. 907 https://books.google.it/books?id=JmtXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA907.