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and most true words concerning the convenience and continuity of nature. For although the bodies of iron and the magnet are separated, their nature is so continued in them that they even agree in one. He also called it the kinship of nature. Baptista Porta called it consensus; others call it concord
Antipathy.
and symphony through metaphor; others, the bond of natural benevolence. The antipathy of things is a certain mutual affection by which they turn away from one another. Galen and Pliny call it conflict and discord: others, dissension, enmity, disagreement, or rivalry. Those who define it by a hostile quality—by means of which natural things are affected by mutual and blind dissensions—do not deviate far from the truth, nor do those who define it as resistance, which evidently resists or hinders so that an action cannot be introduced from the agent