Of bodies, and of mans soul. To discover the immortality of reasonable souls. With two discourses of the powder of sympathy, and of the vegetation of plants / [Sir Kenelm Digby].

  • Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665
Date:
1669
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Credit: Of bodies, and of mans soul. To discover the immortality of reasonable souls. With two discourses of the powder of sympathy, and of the vegetation of plants / [Sir Kenelm Digby]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it to its mo ft advantage. If my aim therm prove fuccefsful, you will with more eafe di- eeft thole inconveniences and diftreffes,which <L.> ' already you have begun to be acquainted with, and that threaten daily worfe to you ; For, how can a man fuffer his heart to be dejected at the privation of any tempo¬ ral blefflngs; while he confiders the in¬ anity of them, and that nothing is worthy hisferious thought,but what may accomapnie him to his Eternal habitation ? What needs he fear the deflations of War, and the worft they can do againfl: him, who have hisEftate in their power; when he may be rich with a much more nobler treafure, that none but himfelf can rob hinrof? without doubt, he that fhall ferioufly refledt on the excellency of his own nature, and upon the admirable * - '■ * i perfect and happy ftate he fhall moftcertainlie arrive to, if he but wean himfelf from thofe worldlie impediments that here clog his fouls flight; cannot choofe but look, with a difl dainful eye, upon the glittering trifler, that weak fpirits delight themfelvs with; If e deem it not requifite ( as of old , the flu housWife man did) to throw away thofe en-