“If you, dear reader, are looking a this across some great gulf of time and increase of knowledge, spare me your condescension. You too were young once, and ignorant once, and from a future standpoint—perhaps your own—you are young and ignorant still.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 21 “But The Sky, My Lady! The Sky!” (p. 358)

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