Anatomy of the Brain

...almost all the hecatombs of animals, that there was no hope for them to be rightly sacrificed unless they were led to the most sacred Altar of your Clemency.

I am not unaware how suspect this labor of mine is: for it is a long time since the scrutiny of Nature has been held as a kind of apprenticeship and mystery of Atheism; as if whatever might accrue to the arguments of Philosophy would derogate from the assessment of Religion, and whatever was attributed to secondary causes would be lost to the First.

But indeed, he misuses the name of Philosophy far too perversely, whoever unfolds the wheels, filaments, joints, and every mechanical apparatus of an automaton, by whose intervention he has learned to measure exactly that intricate machine, the course of time, the order of the months, the changes of the planets, the reciprocal tides of the sea, and other things of this kind; if at last