In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections, p.177
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