In the Lifetime of a California Redwood (Life 1908)
"Man subdues the lightning to his will" is the pinnacle.
posted by Peter Oehlkers at 12:50 PM
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
"Man subdues the lightning to his will" is the pinnacle.
"Then there is electricity! -- the demon, the angel, the mighty physical power, the all-pervading intelligence!" exclaimed Clifford. "Is that a humbug, too? Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence! Or, shall we say, it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we deemed it!" --Nathaniel Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables.
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