
The Crystal Cabinet, st. 2
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
Poem in Essays of a Biologist (1923), quoted by Richard Dawkins in A Devil's Chaplain (2003).
Context: The world of things entered your infant mind
To populate that crystal cabinet.
Within its walls the strangest partners met,
And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind.
For, once within, corporeal fact could find
A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt
Built there your little microcosm—which yet
Had hugest tasks to its small self assigned.
Dead men can live there, and converse with stars:
Equator speaks with Pole, and Night with Day:
Spirit dissolves the world's material bars—
A million isolations burn away.
The Universe can live and work and plan,
At last made God within the mind of man.
The Crystal Cabinet, st. 2
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
Source: LifeParticle Meditation: A Practical Guide to Healing and Transformation
Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield
“To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.”
Address to the Oxford University Law Society (14 June 1957), quoted in The Times (15 June 1957), p. 4
1950s
Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James Meller
1960s
“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.”
Walking the Path of Compassion (2015)
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Art
"Mind and Motive"
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)