THE HUMAN EPHEMERON. “No other science exerted as great an influence on historical thinking of the late Enlightenment as geology. I argue that the significance of geology lies in the reorganization of the past, shifting the position of man in the earth’s history from the centre to the outermost edge.” (Add these blows to the collective human ego to those from Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Hubble, Schrodinger).
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022