tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post6131321996087534062..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `To Try to Take the Measure of Our Loss'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-1788486167399300622015-04-25T08:42:44.354-05:002015-04-25T08:42:44.354-05:00Wilson insists on the significance, not the insign...Wilson insists on the significance, not the insignificance of each individual in the face of the repetitively turning wheels of the universe. So each individual doesn't live 'in vain'. It's rather optimistic.Subbuteohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263202102536057266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-22925586553326792262015-04-25T07:26:37.682-05:002015-04-25T07:26:37.682-05:00In one of the essays collected in The Night is Lar...In one of the essays collected in <i>The Night is Large</i>, Martin Gardner quoted G.K. Chesterton, from what I find is "A Second Childhood":<br /><br />Where in God's ponderous mercy hangs,<br />On all my sins and me,<br />Because he does not take away<br />The terror from the tree<br />And stones still shine along the road<br />That are and cannot be.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com