also describes as a sudden insight) as a glimpse into the total interconnectedness of nature, since this bone, which had been discovered in animals but not yet in man, served as proof of a continuous transition between man and animal, proof that nature makes no sudden leaps. Thus the intermaxillary bone becomes the object of an aperçu: a totality suddenly revealed in a single thing. Vis-à-vis the subject, the aperçu leaves the person feeling transformed, as if liberated from his isolation and elevated into an awareness of a totality. It is a perception that allows a presentiment of his
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