"Swammerdam" Quotes from Famous Books
... motion which are muscles, for they fly and walk; also viscera surrounding the heart and lungs, which are set in action by brains. That even the commonest insects enjoy such organisms is shown in their anatomy as described by some writers, and especially by Swammerdam, in his Biblia Naturae. Those who ascribe everything to nature, see all these things, but they merely perceive that they exist, and say that nature produces them. They say this because they have turned their minds away from thinking ... — Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom • Emanuel Swedenborg |