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Academy of the Lyncæi was a scientific society founded in 1603 by four men who adopted the symbol of the Lynx and the motto, Sagacius ista. Members were ordered to "penetrate into the interior of things in order to know the causes and operations of nature, as it is said the lynx does, which sees not only what is outside, but what is hidden within." The goal was anything less than the assembly of modern science reflected on the method of observation: the church of knowledge. The Academy was to possess in each quarter of the global communes with adequate endowments to retain membership. These communes were complete with libraries, laboratories, museums, printing presses, and botanical gardens. Members frequently wrote letters around their observations. The Lyncæis denounced marriage as a mollis and effeminata requies. Membership was banned to monks. The Academy was reestablished in 1875 and drew membership by William Ewart Gladstone, Herbert Spencer, Edward Augustus Freeman, and George Rawlinson.