Magneticum Naturae Regnum

What heat infuses alternating pacts into twin metals?

What discord joins hard minds?

The panting flint burns, and wounded, feels its friendly

Matter, and Steel recognizes peaceful loves.

Is it not marvelous that stones themselves suffer their own affections? That iron is soothed by its own enticements, and that flames reign in a rigid breast? But in truth, these things ought rightfully to be considered as nothing if they are compared with that potent magnetism by which two things, aroused by the secret motion of a sympathetic affection, burn with unusual feelings of mutual benevolence; so that, consequently, that question often discussed among ethicists (Whether love between two persons unknown to each other...