"The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us: that mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind: that surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any: I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty; though the number of the arc do measure my body, it comprehendeth not my mind: whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun."

Sir T. Browne. Religio Medici.

ἴσον δὲ νύκτεσσιν αἰεί,

ἴσα δ' ἐν ἁμέραις ἅλιον ἔχοντες ἀπονέστερον

ἐσλοὶ δεδόρκαντι βίον, οὐ χθόνα ταράσσοντες ἐν χερὸς ἀκμᾷ

οὐδὲ πόντιον ὕδωρ

κεινὰν παρὰ δίαιταν· ἀλλὰ παρὰ μὲν τιμίοις

θεῶν, οἵτινες ἔχαιρον εὐορκἱαις, ἄδακρυν νέμονται

αἰῶνα·....

..... ἔνθα μακάρων

νᾶσος ὠκεανἰδες