Silence After the Clamors

has investigated, by which for so many centuries occupied anatomists and physicians always bring forth new discoveries of that little world, so that scarcely ever has it been able to be sufficiently described to this point regarding the body? Not to mention the movements of the mind and the rational soul itself, am I to say anything here; or are these things, although they are present, thought to lie in a hidden cave, as it were, and a dark prison? For the hyperphysica metaphysics/transcendental philosophy which look toward these things are veiled by such a cloud of ignorance that scarcely anything concerning their causes and reasons has become known to philosophers. The remaining works of nature are of such variety that they lack a number of difficulties, so that they do not appear upon investigation. When that most wise man, held even by the judgment of the oracle to be so, Socrates, had observed this, he professed that he knew nothing, except this one thing: that he knew nothing. For just as the size of this earth which we touch is vast in respect to the human body, but nearly nothing in comparison to the heavens, so the knowledge of the most learned man, if compared with all of nature, is nearly nothing, though if compared with the unlearned crowd, it is not of small moment. From which we can easily conjecture that far more things lie hidden in the secret treasures of nature