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Joseph Glanvill (1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century. In 1661 he predicted

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Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

Light, River, Rivers, Solid, Substantial, Time

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

Corruption, Departure, Religion, Universal, Universality

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

Inquiry, Matter, Belief, Certain, Matters

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

Calling, World, Truth Is, Notion, Mistaken, Antiquity

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Angel, Intentness, Men, Pervading, Things, Yield

We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on. . . And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.

Spring, Knowledge, Science, Earth, Ignorant, Know

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

Live, Old, Opinion, Opinions, Sage, Sages

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

Assurance, Daunt, Discouraging, Raise, Raises

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

Style, Acceptable, Effective, Words, Suitableness

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

Correspondence, Distance, May, Mean, Natural, Sympathetic

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

Justice, Requirements, According, Nature

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Belief, Exercise, Faith, Reason

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

Women, Garden, Deceit, Begun, Prosecutes

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

Hard, Humanity, Knots, Purer, Spirit, United