APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
Demoniac possession is mythical; but the faculty of being possessed, more or less completely, by an idea i,s probably the fundamental condition of what is called genius, whether it show itself in the saint, the artist, or the man of science. One calls it faith, , another calls it inspiration, a third calls it insight; but the “intending of the mind,” to borrow Newton’s well-known phrase, the concentration of all the rays of intellectual energy on some one point, until it glows and colours the whole cast oi thought with its peculiar light, is common to all.
What ever happens, ,science may hide her time in patience and in confidence. -X- -X- -X- * The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 1
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130APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 1
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