"As in Bodies there is a Principle of Gravity or Attraction, whereby in Vacuo, they tend to one another, and would unite, according to certain Laws and Limitations established by the Author of Nature: So there is an Analogous Principle in Spirits, whereby they would as certainly, in their proper Vacuity, be attracted by, tend to, and unite with one another, and their first Author, Centre, and the Rock out of which they were hewn (to use a Scripture Phrase) as the Planets would to one another, and to the Sun."
— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
George Strahan
Date
1724
Metaphor
"As in Bodies there is a Principle of Gravity or Attraction, whereby in Vacuo, they tend to one another, and would unite, according to certain Laws and Limitations established by the Author of Nature: So there is an Analogous Principle in Spirits, whereby they would as certainly, in their proper Vacuity, be attracted by, tend to, and unite with one another, and their first Author, Centre, and the Rock out of which they were hewn (to use a Scripture Phrase) as the Planets would to one another, and to the Sun."
Metaphor in Context
Prop IV. As in Bodies there is a Principle of Gravity or Attraction, whereby in Vacuo, they tend to one another, and would unite, according to certain Laws and Limitations established by the Author of Nature: So there is an Analogous Principle in Spirits, whereby they would as certainly, in their proper Vacuity, be attracted by, tend to, and unite with one another, and their first Author, Centre, and the Rock out of which they were hewn (to use a Scripture Phrase) as the Planets would to one another, and to the Sun. And this is nothing else but what in Scripture is called CHARITY.
(p. 149)
(p. 149)
Categories
Provenance
Reading in the British Library; found again reading Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne & The Argument from Design (Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1982), 84.
Citation
Cheyne, George. An Essay of Health and Long Life (London: George Strahan, 1724). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
02/08/2012
