[…] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […]

A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.

Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?

Within the context of Hebrew religious thought, nature, although still regarded as a living entity, was robbed of its personality and demythed. Once the Greeks became literate, they also demythed nature and developed a notion of causality to explain its actions.