Experience has been declared, with equal truth and poetry, to adopt occasionally the tone, and attain to something like the certainty, of Prophecy. In the contemplating mind the past and the future are linked by a bond as indissoluble as that which connects them in their actual sequence.


Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews with Addresses and, Other Pieces, Quetelet on Probabilities (p. 365)

John Herschel Quotes

Experience has been declared, with equal truth and poetry, to adopt occasionally the tone, and attain to something like the certainty, of Prophecy....

Experience has been declared, with equal truth and poetry, to adopt occasionally the tone, and attain to something like the certainty, of Prophecy....

Experience has been declared, with equal truth and poetry, to adopt occasionally the tone, and attain to something like the certainty, of Prophecy....

Experience has been declared, with equal truth and poetry, to adopt occasionally the tone, and attain to something like the certainty, of Prophecy....