The view from above
The microscope reveals to man his significance; the telescope, his insignificance. Through the eternities of existence man is gradually increasing in both wisdom and understanding; his ever-expanding consciousness is including more of the external within the area of itself. Even in man’s present state of imperfection it is dawning upon his realizat
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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
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Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. Her horizon seemed to her limitless.”