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tLT IMA THULE dre , ams of magic may one day 8 dari, W u kl ? g realiti es of science. But Old fbadow lies athwart the far .L fa ‘ r prospect. For how®nd nr St the of knowledge hav e in p ? W€r which the future may hc D - s * ore for man. he can scarcely force/ 0 stay the sweep of those great l&ntL Ytoch seem to be making SucSnl relentlessly for the de- ° f all this starr y universe in mote Tn + u arlil sw inis as a speck or be ahu ♦ the ages to come man may tontmi *l° P red ict. perhaps even to *inds wayward courses of the pto v ci OU ds. but hardly will his •fresh nands hav e strength to speed ’•bit slackening planet in its tim. Ym ln s e the dying fire of the it th® 1 j Philosopher who trembles tronhAo 2? ea of su ch distant catasUctis t? a ; cons ole himself by reWiiC 13 these gloomy apprehentbernkJ!* 6 the earth and the sun are only parts of that unfcnjurJ, world which thought has the nSL up out of the void, and that a ntrpe. 2 rn< which the subtle enhan tr»Jn" as evoked to-day she may t£? r ? w They too. like so ■oliff, ma 1 to common eyes seems melt into air, into thin air. Boughj» orge Frazer; "The Golden
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24896, 8 June 1946, Page 5
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235MINUTE Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24896, 8 June 1946, Page 5
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