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…above and below the narrow zone of the visible are objects too far off and too fine for human scrutiny. Although the SEEMING ALL is rounded by intimations of other and brighter regions, Science can never compass them by any extension of her domain! In those unsounded depths which form the boundary and background of the known, thought grown dizzy finds no support…

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Gaither, C.C., Cavazos-Gaither, A.E. (2012). O. In: Gaither, C., Cavazos-Gaither, A. (eds) Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1114-7_15

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