Quotation from Colin Maclaurin
The author of Nature has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this Earth with the other great bodies of the Universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other planets and betwixt the different systems.
We observe, in all of them, enough to raise our curiosity, but not to satisfy it. It does not appear to be suitable to the wisdom that shines throughout all nature, to suppose that we should see so far, and have our curiosity so much raised, only to be disappointed to the end.
This therefore naturally leads us to consider our present state as only the dawn of beginning of our existence, and as a state of preparation our probation for farther advancement.
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| What are you? From where did you come? The Creator Raven looked at Man and what surprised to find that this strange new being was so much like himself (Eskimo creation myth). Illustration: Elena |
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