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

Sub′tilism, the quality of being subtile; Sub′tilty, state or quality of being subtile: fineness: extreme acuteness: cunning.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The question at issue here is one of those profound and subtile ones which cannot be approached by argument, but can be decided only by a seeing.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.