Selon ce que l'on peut être
Les choses changent de nom.
—Amphytrion, Prologue.
NATURE.
Dialogue Between The Philosopher And Nature.
PHILOSOPHER.
What are you, Nature? I live in you? but I have been searching for you for fifty years, and have never yet been able to find you.
NATURE.
The ancient Egyptians, whose lives it is said extended to twelve hundred years, attached the same reproach to me. They called me Isis; they placed a thick veil over my head; and they said that no one could ever raise it.
PHILOSOPHER.
It is on that account that I apply directly to yourself. I have been able to measure some of your globes, to ascertain their courses, and to point out the laws of motion; but I have never been able to ascertain what you are yourself.