"The Spirit"
The General Scholium ends with a mystifying paragraph about a "certain most subtle Spirit, which prevades and lies hid in all gross bodies." It has been largely interpreted as Newton's view and prospect of electricity, a phenomenon of which little was known about at the time. Newton describes some attributes of this Spirit and concludes:
But these are things that cannot be explained in a few words, nor are we furnished with that sufficiency of experiments which is required to an accurate determination and demonstration of the laws which this electric spirit operates.
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Famous quotes containing the word spirit:
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 15:13.