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— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke"Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy."
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A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.
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Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
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