subtile

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Recent scientific discoveries have conferred upon man new powers of investigation, whereby nature has been made to reveal secrets so subtile that they never had been dreamt of before in philosophy.

From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2013

At Paris the Universe is seen, compos’d of Vortices of subtile Matter; but nothing like it is seen in London.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

And thus it is that the work of creation has neither beginning nor ending, but is ever progressing in its subtile methods of combining, dissolving, and recombining the entire matter of the universe.

From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey

Nor wanting was the choral song, Swelling in silvery chimes of sweetness; To sound of which this subtile throng Advanced in playful grace and fleetness.

From Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland by Crocker, T. Crofton

The subtile philosophy of the Greeks was now brought into contact with the sublime but corrupted theology of the Persians, and the mysticism of India secretly mingled itself with the mass of knowledge.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas