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He was also the author of a dialogue on the relations of body and soul, entitled Microcosmus; which with characteristic modesty he kept for more than twenty years known only to his intimate friends indeed it was only in the last year of his life that he composed a dedication for it, and it seems never to have been printed.
I was interrupted in my microcosmus just as it occurred to me that Chesterton would heartily approve of my approximation of Sirius and Stentor, of Capella and Cothurnia the universe balanced.
Know, that the human being's thoughts and deeds Are not like ocean billows, blindly moved. The inner world, his microcosmus, is The deep shaft, out of which they spring eternally. They grow by certain laws, like the tree's fruit No juggling chance can metamorphose them. Have I the human kernel first examined? Then I know, too, the future will and action. OCTAVIO. Is the detachment here?
His three works are Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places, etc.; Purchas his Pilgrim, Microcosmus, or the History of Man, etc.; and Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, containing a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Land Travels, etc.
He lived in London, and wrote comedies, satirising bourgeois society. He was most successful in writing masques, among which are Spring's Glory and Microcosmus. He also wrote a continuation of Richard Knolles' History of the Turks.
Although we thus have to deny to the proof of this identity or similarity the weight which Fechner gives to it, nevertheless it has still no small merit, since it throws new and clearer light upon the old thought, always attractive and yet so difficult to present, of a macrocosmus and a microcosmus, which has been often enough treated with so much natural mysticism.
His works include Mirum in Modum, Microcosmus , and The Picture of a Happy Man . Wit's Bedlam , and many epigrams on his contemporaries which have some historical interest. Lawyer and poet, s. of a lawyer at Westbury, Wiltshire, was ed. at Winchester and Oxf., and became a barrister of the Middle Temple, 1595.
The books of Isaac Israeli on the "Elements" and on "Definitions," are no better, seeing that Israeli was only a physician and no philosopher. He is not familiar with the "Microcosmus" of Joseph ibn Zaddik, but infers from a knowledge of the man that his work is based upon the writings of the "Brothers of Purity"; and hence, we may add, not strictly Aristotelian, and not particularly important.
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