Adrienne RichAnd yet, protest it if we will, Some corner of the mind retains The medieval man, who still Keeps watch upon those starry skeins And drives us out of doors at night To gaze at anagrams of light.
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Although the world has changed greatly since Aldous Huxley wrote “Ape and Essence” in 1932, he still speaks to us, because he spoke about something that is timeless. That innate desire to understand. To examine our place in the world, the world around us, and the world that came before it.
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