In the _Archaeologiae_ he professed to reconcile a former work of his on the origins of the world with the account given in Genesis.

The quotation is from chapter VII.

of book I., "De Hebraeis, eorumque Cabala," and may be translated thus: "I easily believe that the invisible natures in the universe are more in number than the visible.

But who shall tell us all the kinds of them?
the ranks and relationships, the peculiar qualities and gifts of each?
what they do?
where they dwell?
Man's wit has ever been circling about the knowledge of these things, but has never attained to it.

Yet in the meanwhile I will not deny that it is profitable to contemplate from time to time in the mind, as in a picture, the idea of a larger and better world; lest the mind, becoming wonted to the little things of everyday life, grow narrow and settle down altogether to mean businesses.