Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica|passage=That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it-self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And 'twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.
1701, John Norris, An essay towards the theory of the ideal or intelligible world, The Mind of God as it is Eternally prægnant with them,?o it Eternally Views and contemplates them, and all things in them,but does not make them.
