Another quotation from a series I am presenting to illustrate that our current scientific SETI research, utilizing the best electronic and computer technology of our time, is in fact a pre-technological concept of natural philosophy dating to antiquity, whose development coincides with the cultural evolution of human society. [RMO]
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He, who through vast immensity can pierce
See worlds on worlds compose one universe,
Observe how system into system runs,
What other planets circle other suns,
What varied Being peoples every star,
May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
-Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man"
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Pope began contemplating a new work on the relations of man, nature, and society in 1733 that would be a grand organization of human experience and intuition, but he was destined never to complete it. An Essay on Man (1733-34) was intended as an introductory book discussing basic concepts to be elaborated in a more comprehensive work.