"It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!"

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Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

— Henry David Thoreau