opaca

Updated: January 21, 2026

Physica sunt opaca, nempe formata et finita, in quibus Metaphysici veri lumen videmus.” The reasoner who assigns structure or organization as the antecedent of Life, who names the former a cause, and the latter its effect, he it is who pretends to account for life.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.