Magneticum Naturae Regnum

...generous hearts from such a praiseworthy zeal for investigating the truth. I, for one, while I contemplate more deeply this worldly Theater, furnished with an infinite variety of things, find no effect so prodigious, no force of any thing so occult, No natural force is so occult that a probable reason for it cannot at least be given. for which a cause—if not certain or evident—at least probable or plausible cannot be assigned by a clever and sagacious mind. Since there are no forces, whether manifest or occult, which have not been implanted in created things by God, the Best and Greatest, with a truly most wise design and for certain ends, regarding either the utility proper to the things themselves or our own, it is not credible that God willed them to be hidden and inaccessible to man, the son and heir of the World and the end of all things. For God, the Best and Greatest, brought all living creatures to Adam, that he might see what he would call them—in which passage the whole human race may not incongruously be understood by "Adam"—as if God had placed the variety of created things before the eyes of man alone in this World, so that by the vigor of his intellect, having investigated the properties of individual things, he might be turned toward praising and loving the most wise Architect of them all. Therefore, the Author of Nature endowed individual living creatures, even the smallest, with a certain singular instinct, which is indeed nothing other than a certain material, or rather shadowy, intellect, or an operation of the faculty of imagination, by which the natural appetite of the living creature is determined toward impulse and flight, toward convenience and inconvenience. Who