◯ Associate to Circle
◯ Associate to Circle
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The human Intellect, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater order and equality in things than it actually finds; and, while there are many things in Nature unique, and quite irregular, still it feigns parallels, correspondents, and relations that have no existence. Hence that fiction, 'that among the heavenly bodies all motion takes place by perfect circles'.
- (Such are the idols of the tribe, spontaneous fictions of the mind.)********
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Francis Bacon;
from Michel Foucault;
The Order of Things.********
- (Such are the idols of the tribe, spontaneous fictions of the mind.)