The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible. (Thomas Browne)

The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.

Thomas Browne

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