Let us now consider, for a little while, how wonderfully we stand upon this world. Here it is we are born, bred, and live, and yet we view these things with an almost entire absence of wonder to ourselves respecting the way in which all this happens.
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- On the Various Forces of Nature, Lecture I: The Force of Gravitation (1894 edition); Two complete opening sentences of the lecture’s discussion of wonder. Read surrounding introduction and paragraph, title page and editorial preface. Public-domain lecture text edited by William Crookes; 1894 is the
- On the Various Forces of Nature, Lecture I: The Force of Gravitation (1894 edition)
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