Quaker Culture: The Vital Principle
- Author(s):
- Anne Conway
- Issue:
- On Science (November 2022)
- Department:
- Quaker Culture
Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which has no vital principle of motion in it; but it is a living body which has life and perception, which are much more exalted than a mere mechanism or a mechanical motion.
– Anne Conway (1690)