Walking with Plato by Gary Hayden

Author:Gary Hayden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2016-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

All the vast, and wonderful scenes, either of delight, or horror, which the universe affords . . . such as unbounded prospects, particularly that of the ocean, in its different situations of agitation, or repose; the rising or setting sun; the solemnity of moon light; all the phaenomena in the heavens, and objects of astronomy. We are moved in the same manner by the view of dreadful precipices; great ruins; subterraneous caverns, and the operations of nature in those dark recesses[.]

The experience of the sublime is one of the most profound that life affords. Lying there, that night, awed by the immensity of space and acutely conscious of my own insignificance, I felt it strongly. And, ‘at the same time that I was infinitely pleased, I trembled’.

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