BLINDED BY NEBULAE.
He gazed into the greatest telescope And saw the far-flung universe unfurled; He peered into the finest microscope And watched the wonders of a strangecelled world; He split and saw the atom’s mystery And watched the spectrum’s shadows glow and dim . . . He saw all things—and yet he did not see The starving beggar’s hand held out to him. —lrvine A. Wheeler in the Christian Century.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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68BLINDED BY NEBULAE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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