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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

He will come very near to us in his books, and by that subtile law of communion which, through the brightest and noblest utterances, makes all the better world akin.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

Whence comes this man with his new poetry, which confounds the critics? and that man with his subtile wit borrowed from no school?

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

For Eutychius,149 bishop of that city, taught, that our body, in the glory of resurrection, would be impalpable, and more subtile than wind and air.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert