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I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.


Edgar Saltus

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Edgar Saltus

Edgar Saltus

Born: October 8, 1855
Died: July 31, 1921 (aged 65)
Bio: Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans and Oscar Wilde.
Known for:
  1. The philosophy of disenchantment (1885)
  2. Anatomy of Negation (1886)
  3. HISTORIA AMORIS (1906)
  4. The Paliser Case (1919)
  5. Lords of the Ghostland (1907)

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