"The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one."

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Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like evolution, and thinks it would be at all possible for him to be in on that game, he would irreverently have to have his whack at that too. That daring megalomania of his-has it not brought him to his present place?

— Jacques Loeb