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Date: 1765
"Modern philosophers give them other fine names and Julius Scaliger, in particular, used to call them "seeds of eternity" and also "zopyra"--meaning living fires or flashes of light hidden inside us but made visible by stimulation of the senses, as sparks can be struck by steel."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1782
"I read it carefully a second time--pondered--weighed--and submitted--whenever a spark of vanity seems to be glowing at my heart--I will read your letter--and what then?"
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
