Joseph Barrell Quote

The scheme of the Universe is more profound and the unknown is a little nearer than it was recently though to be. But such has been the progress of knowledge since man, in the days before the advent of science naively regarded the earth, his home, as firmament, created a few thousand years previously especially for his benefit.

In: J.H.F. Umbgrove, The Pulse of the Earth, Chapter I (p. 2), Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague, Netherlands. 1947