Religio medici.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1831
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Credit: Religio medici. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    corrode and devour me ; and therefore defenda me Dios de me, Lord deliver me from myself, is a part of my litany, and the first voice of my retired imaginations. There is no man alone, because every man is a microcosm, and carries the whole world about him: Nunqmm minus solus quant cum solus, though it be the apothegm of a wise man, is yet true in the mouth of a fool; for indeed, though in a wilderness, a man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the devil, who ever consorts with our solitude, and is that unruly rebel that musters up those disordered motions which accompany our sequestered imaginations : and to speak more narrowly, there is no such thing as solitude, nor any thing that can be said to be alone and by itself, but God, who is in his own circle, and can subsist by himself; all others, besides their dissimilary and heterogenous parts, which in a manner multiply their natures, cannot subsist without the concourse of God, and the society of that hand which doth uphold their rnfectus by which it seems he did not comprehend the author’s meaning; for the author means Adam, and, by a retonymw original sin ; for the navel being only of use to attract the aliment in utero materno, and Adam havi g mother he had no use of a navel, and therefore it is not to be conceived he had any ; and upon that ground the author calls him the man without a navel.
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