The opening of Dante’s Inferno reads: ‘Nel mezzo del cammino di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / che la diritta via era smarrita.’ — which could be poetically rendered in English as: “When I had traversed midway on this life’s trail, I woke to myself alone within a shadowed wilderness, for I had lost the right and proper path that never strays.”
Kant said an irrevocable limit to our knowing is in place, because our thoughts can never penetrate the luminous barrier. But others, less famed, attribute the expansion of knowing not to enhancing our thoughts but to cultivating new sense organs. And they say so not out of theory, but experience…
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[ The wonderful drawing over which I impressed the words is by one Honey Baraparte. ]
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