physico-intellectual

Updated: May 19, 2025

And to this vile man a philosopher would say "Go away, sir, and come back to me two or three centuries hence, when you have learned to be a reasonable creature, and to make that physico-intellectual thing out of dinner which it was meant to be, and is capable of becoming." In Henry VII.'s time the court dined at eleven in the forenoon.

Thomas De Quincey - Miscellaneous Essays