8 ‘Strange things so probably told’
Let us establish a chaste and lawful marriage between mind and nature, with the divine mercy as bridewoman.¹ I am come in very truth leading to you Nature with all her children to bind her to your service and make her your slave … so may I succeed in my only earthly wish, namely to stretch the deplorably narrow limits of man’s dominion over the universe to their promised bounds.² The human mind in studying nature becomes big under the impact of things, and brings forth a teeming brood of errors.³ Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature can
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