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Thomas Browne

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

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Thomas Browne is saying that everything we see is made or shaped by some form of design, because nature itself is a creation crafted by a higher power. This means that what we call natural is actually a kind of art, deliberately formed rather than random or purely wild.

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