Consolations in travel, or the last days of a philosopher / By Sir Humphry Davy.
- Humphry Davy
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Consolations in travel, or the last days of a philosopher / By Sir Humphry Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![would find one character peculiar to all intelli- gent natures, a sense of receiving impressions from light by various organs of vision, and towards this result you cannot but perceive that all the arrangements and motions of the planetary bodies, their satellites, and atmo- spheres, are subservient. The spiritual natures, therefore, that pass from system to system in progression towards power and knowledge, pre- serve at least this one invariable character, and their intellectual life may be said to depend more or less upon the influence of light. As far as my knowledge extends, even in other parts of the universe the more perfect organized systems still possess this source of sensation and enjoyment; but with higher natures,]finer and more etherial kinds of matter are employed in organization, substances that bear the same ana- logy to common matter that the refined or most subtile gases do to common solids and fluids. The universe is every where full of life, but the modes of this life are infinitely diversified, and yet every form of it must be enjoyed and known by every spiritual nature before the consumma- tion of all things. You have seen the comet movinsr with its immense train of lisrht throuffh](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22021164_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
