Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But he was by no means a blind worshipper, in fact he was compelled reluctantly to admit that in one little matter his goddess had made a mistake. This mistake consisted, according to him, in the development of a race of intelligent beings like ourselves. This was the only blot on her escutcheon— the rift within the lute—the vone incongruous feature that marred her otherwise perfect beauty. He had often and anxiously pondered over this little point, at first in the hope that it might be found to denote a strictly local outbreak, just as every good man is bound to hope that an epidemic may be confined to one locality, but a more profound study had brought home to his reluctant mind the conviction that the disease was probably as extensive as the uni- verse itself. As he had no enemies, the task of criticising these utterances of the little Doctor of course fell to his friends, from whom we have derived
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