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Updated: October 8, 2026
The Marquise, in the Plurality of Worlds, reacts to the startling illumination: "Voila l'univers si grand que je m'y perds, je ne sais plus ou je suis; je ne suis plus rien. La terre est si effroyablement petite!" Such a revolution in cosmic values could not fail to exert a penetrating influence on human thought.
Would man, stripped of his cosmic pretensions, and finding himself lost in the immensities of space, invent a more modest theory of his destinies confined to his own little earth si effroyablement petite? The eighteenth century answered this question by the theory of Progress.