Date: 1656
"Thales argued, that the Load-stone, and Amber had soules; the first because it drawes Iron, the second Straw."
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Date: 1656
"We answer, Sight is twofold, corporeal and spirituall; the first is that of Sense, the other the Intellectuall faculty, by which we agree with Angels; this Platonists call Sight, the corporeall being only an Image of this"
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Date: 1656
"So Aristotle, Intellect is that to the Soul which sight is to the Body: Hence is Minerva (Wisdom) by Homer call'd, Bright-ey'd"
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