An outbreak of bubonic plague in 1665 sent Isaac Newton back home to Woolsthorpe. He welcomed the isolation; the plague years were the most productive of his life.
“There is a vital agent diffused through everything in the earth, a mercurial spirit, extremely subtle and supremely volatile.” I. Newton
The contrast between thinkers like Newton , who believed a sacred secret knowledge had once existed but was lost, and our modern mentality , which claims those who came before us were hopelessly superstitious, is stark.
History has painted Newton as an agent of science that was bastion against mysticism, the practical application of the Unknowable-nothing could be farther from the heart he exposed in his journal writings. His experiments, drive to find truth, dodging the Church while pursuing God all served into his makeup and contributions to the era; although, the end of his contributions to mankind from insights came to an end after he achieve fame in London. No more struggle no more ground breaking theories.
Isaac Newton: Magician, Parabola, vol. 45, Winter 2020-2021:Soraya Field Fiorio
I’m just saying————-J.E.W.
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