Henry Adams quote about sight from The Education of Henry Adams - Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
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Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
 Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1906). copy citation

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Author Henry Adams
Source The Education of Henry Adams
Topic sight vision unity
Date 1906
Language English
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“The Geological Survey supplied stacks of volumes, and reading for steady months; while, the longer he read, the more he wondered, pondered, doubted what his delightful old friend Sir Charles Lyell would have said about it.
Truly the animal that is to be trained to unity must be caught young. Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. The older the mind, the older its complexities, and the further it looks, the more it sees, until even the stars resolve themselves into multiples; yet the child will always see but one. Adams asked whether geology since 1867 had drifted towards unity or multiplicity, and he felt that the drift would depend on the age of the man who drifted.” source

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