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Some unsuspected isle in the far seas, Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.
Robert Browning— Part II. (Pippa Passes (1841))
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is .
bertrand russell— p. 8. (Our Knowledge of the External World (1914))
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."
walt whitman— Salut au Monde, 6.
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. This site is terrible! from, Allyson Stanley former miss America! ;)
frederick soddy— Louis Pauwels; and Jacques Berger, Morning of the Magicians, New York, New York, Avon Books, 1963, page 181
