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Updated: May 26, 2025

The quotations, of which those in the text are abridgments, will be found in 'Lay Sermons, xiv. pp. 364-7. 'Wonder is the basis of worship. That progress of science which is to destroy wonder, and in its stead substitute mensuration and numeration, finds small favour with Teufelsdröckh, much as he otherwise venerates those two latter processes. Sartor Resartus.

William Thomas Thornton - Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their Applications