“Natural love or hatred is that sympathy or antipathy which is to be seen in animate and inanimate creatures, in the four elements, metals, stones, gravia tendunt deorsum [heavy bodies tend downwards], as a stone to his centre, fire upward, and rivers to the sea. The sun, moon, and stars still go round, amantes naturae debita exercere, for love of perfection. This love is manifest, I say, in inanimate creatures. How comes a loadstone to draw iron to it? jet chaff? the ground to covet showers, but for love?”
