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Sir John R. Seeley
(10 Sep 1834 - 13 Jan 1895)
English historian and writer who published a religious work, Ecce Homo (1865), at first anonymously. His series of essays contributed (1875-1878) to Macmillan’s Magazine titled “Natural Religion” were collected and supplemented in book form published with the same name in 1882.
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Science Quotes by Sir John R. Seeley (1 quote)
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion, analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable. There is food for contemplation which never runs short; you are gazing at an object which is always growing clearer, and yet always, in the very act of growing clearer, presenting new mysteries.
— Sir John R. Seeley
From 'Natural History', Macmillan's Magazine (1875), 31, 366.