bandit-fire

Updated: January 24, 2026

The photograph had forgotten nothing. It had equally preserved the contour of the everlasting mountains and the passing smoke of a bandit-fire. Are there, then, contained in the brain more permanently, as in the retina more transiently, the vestiges of impressions that have been gathered by the sensory organs?

John William Draper - History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science