1053. Earthly, reasoned knowledge ought to be completely submissive toward very inward things
This fact is made clear by a single example, namely, that the human body with all its members, viscera, organs, has been built in accordance with all of nature's arts and sciences, indeed, the deepest secrets of all the sciences, however many there are, or can be: and all and every one of these parts are entirely submissive to the soul and to the will, so that they know nothing else than obeying and serving. If this is true of the body, and yet the body is something to be valued as nothing-that will die, will become a corpse-then what are the learned sciences but nothing in comparison with those within the body! 1748, 27 February.