Sublime

I saw more of Lyell than of any other man, both before and after my marriage. His mind was characterised, as it appeared to me, by clearness, caution, sound judgment, and a good deal of originality. When I made any remark to him on Geology, he never rested until he saw the whole case clearly, and often made me see it more clearly than I had done be

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I gave Wang a copy of Joseph Campbell’s great book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, because he is a classic hero and I thought it might help him. I also gave him The Lessons of History, a 104-page distillation of the major forces through history by Will and Ariel Durant, and River Out of Eden by the insightful Richard Dawkins, which explains how evo

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is not clear whether Blanc ever achieved such uniformity himself. If so, it would have been on a limited basis in small production lots. He did not use machinery, but rather promoted hand-shaping and filing parts with the aid of precise dies and jigs, or molds, which he may have learned from Swedish clock makers.) Jefferson pressed Blanc’s methods

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