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Thomas Browne’s seventeenth-century autobiographical and religious prose meditation

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Religion, nature, art, providence, mortality, tolerance, knowledge and Christian natural theology.

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In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.

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“In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.”

Thomas Browne

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Browne collapses the usual opposition between art and nature by treating natural order itself as divine workmanship.

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Religio Medici, represented by Project Gutenberg #586. Browne develops this sentence inside an explicitly Christian natural-theology argument about providence, creation and the beauty of living forms. It is historical religious philosophy, not a scientific definition of nature.

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