Sunday, October 28, 2007

The wonder of the world ...

... Face to faith. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Methinks it worth pondering the words of Bacon that Mark Vernon quotes: "The secrets of nature are better revealed under the torture of experiments than when they follow their natural course."
Considering how much of a reality torture was in Bacon's day, this seems a most unsettling trope.

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