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

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

Joseph Glanvill quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Glanvill quotes: Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

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

Joseph Glanvill quotes: It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Joseph Glanvill quotes: And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Joseph Glanvill quotes: Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

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

Joseph Glanvill quotes: The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

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

Joseph Glanvill quotes: There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

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

Joseph Glanvill quotes: The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

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

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

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

Joseph Glanvill quotes: What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

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

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

Joseph Glanvill quotes: The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

Joseph Glanvill quotes: The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.