Silence After the Clamors

greater mysteries hidden and prepared, and has brought forth as many peculiar species rerum types of things and creatures according to the pleasure and will of the Almighty. In these same things, it has held back everything that it did not wish to have revealed or mastered by the common, ignorant populace. This is not, however, as the Geißhälß a derogatory term for critics or detractors or the envious are accustomed to doing in shameful ways; rather, nature does this to encourage sluggish and sleepy people to offer heartfelt praise to virtue and to research the precious, excellent, yet hidden mysteries of nature with greater diligence and seriousness, and to hold what they have discovered as a high and precious treasure. For just as that which lies daily before our eyes and, as it were, at our feet is commonly held in low esteem, whereas that which is hidden from us, or is not generally known among us, is considered much more precious—and this is not always in consideration of the essenz essence and properties of the thing itself, but also because of the instability of the mind and the desire