“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.”

— Kenneth Rexroth

Shakespeare: The Tempest (p. 132)
Classics Revisited (1968)

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