I 1
De immenso (1591)
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Context: It is manifest... that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffused throughout immensity... The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the universe... Naught is mixed, yet is there some presence.
Anything we take in the universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
2008, Angelus following the Closing Mass (19 July 2008)
2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)
“The living force of his soul gained the day: on he passed far beyond the flaming walls of the world and traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe.”
Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extra
processit longe flammantia moenia mundi
atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.
Book I, lines 72–74 (tr. H. A. J. Munro); of Epicurus.
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Source: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter II: "Variation Under Nature", page 59
“Natural science is throughout either a pure or an applied doctrine of motion.”
Preface, Tr. Bax (1883)
(1786)
