[PW] Re: "Nature is the art of God"

[Chris Corston]

Thanks for this, Tom!
Chris
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From: "Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)" <tfuller at DELOITTE.com>
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Subject: [PW] "Nature is the art of God"


> Since the idea was to include more of the context, here's a fuller (pun
> intended) quotation from the Browne work, where it appears at the end of
> Section 16:
>
> <To speak yet more narrowly, there was never anything ugly or mis-shapen
> but the Chaos; wherein, notwithstanding, to speak strictly, there was no
> deformity, because no form, nor was it yet impregnate by the voice of
> God. Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature, they
> being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of
> nature: were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a
> Chaos: nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things
> are artificial for nature is the art of God.>
>
> -- Tom
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