co-effort

Updated: May 20, 2025

This means that we have discovered of removing death to an indefinite distance is not supernatural; on the contrary, it is the most natural thing in the world, the very perfection of the natural, since it consists in applying the powers and processes of Nature to the prolongation of the existence of man, her most perfect handiwork; and this could only be done by entire accordance and co-effort with Nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life