The Summary of Physics Restored

223That radical ferment, remaining constantly in the depths of mixed bodies, seems to be the bond of the marriage contracted between light and darkness, first matter and universal form—in a word, between contraries—and the seat and receptacle of forms in mixed bodies. Otherwise matter and form could not grow together because their natures are almost opposed. Yet first matter’s dark fierceness and aversion to light were tamed, and its hatred turned to love, through the benefit of that first luminous tincture which reconciles opposites.