1686 · Skopia

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1686

★ 7.1

Discourse on Metaphysics

1686 · 84 pages

Leibniz answers Descartes and Spinoza with a universe of self-contained substances, each carrying its whole history and future inside its own concept and mirroring the world from where it stands.

★ 6.3

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

On the Divine Poems · 1686

★ 1.8

Love ceases to be a Pleasure, when it ceases to be a Secret.

Aphra Behn

1686

★ 1.2