Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, 'What man does with his aloneness.''

Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled…