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Quaker Culture: The Vital Principle

Author(s):
Anne Conway
Issue:
On Science (November 2022)
Department:
Quaker Culture

 

Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which has no vital principle of motion in it; but it is a living body which has life and perception, which are much more exalted than a mere mechanism or a mechanical motion.

          – Anne Conway (1690)

Nature creation

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