ABSTRACT
What a wonderful image: the Judeo-Christian LORD as an invisible vanishing point on a sphere Gunnar Olsson, Abysmal
Recently being in conversation here in London with a traveler and discoverer, I mentioned the great geographical importance of accurate representations of our planet in the shape of globes; suddenly he interrupted me, and said with a smile, “What is the use of your Lilliputian globes, ten, a hundred, or thousand yards thick, when you have the very globe itself, our good and beneficent Earth, to walk over, to look at, to study, and to love?” Of course I laughed, and thought with him that all representations and symbols of life are very little in comparison with life itself. Élisée Reclus, A Great Globe
