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“Unfailingly honest, he felt it was more ethical to stay away than to participate in a hypocritical way.”
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“The study of nature embraced many overlapping approaches. Collecting and classifying objects was called natural history. Deducing general laws was the work of natural philosophers. The search for God—the Christian God—in the natural world was the purview of natural theology. Along similar lines, mysterious natural forces and transformations—changes related to life and death, electricity and magnetism, the formation of crystals and gases—had long been understood as natural magic.”
― Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
― Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
