“The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real, peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world.”

Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Context: The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real, peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world. This is the single whole which filleth the whole, illumineth the universe and directeth nature to the production of natural things, as our intellect with the congruous production of natural kinds.

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Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548–1600

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