. . mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. —Ralph Waldo Emerson “Merlin,” Poems (1847) It is not impossible that to some infinitely superior being the whole universe may be as one plain, the distance between planet and planet being only as the pores in a grain of sand, and the spaces between system and system no greater than the intervals between one grain and the grain adjacent. —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Omniania
