ABSTRACT
‘And lo, looking over his shoulder, or rather in the very recesses of his observations, the man of science found the companion he most desired to avoid. Do what he could, he could not rid himself of the society of his own mind … He had regarded thought as “a mere pensioner of outward forms”. Now into the broad sunlight emerged the menacing incontrovertible truth that in the picture he drew of nature he was invariably himself present, and that his presence gave to the picture features which virgin nature never had, nor could have.’
