The Night Country by Loren Eiseley

Author:Loren Eiseley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

9. Strangeness in the Proportion

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“I may truly say,” wrote Sir Francis Bacon, in the time of his tragic fall in 1621, “my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. I seem to have my conversation among the ancients more than among those with whom I live.” I suppose, in essence, this is the story of every man who thinks, though there are centuries when such thought grows painfully intense, as in our own. Bacon’s contemporary Shakespeare also speaks of it from the shadows when he says:

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