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vast horizon. We see the rivers, as on a map, branching away 

 like blue ribbons ; the mountains have become mere mounds, 

 and the cities playthings. Within these the homunculi 

 move to and fro. 



Unlike what happens in the majority of animals, the 

 sensed-world of the human being also embraces his effector- 

 organs and their activity. So it is possible to form real 

 implements based on a human action-rule, around which 

 certain properties arrange themselves under compulsion by 

 the schema. 



In early childhood the implements are still few in number. 

 As the man grows, they become more numerous, and soon 

 in his world-as-sensed we can distinguish from one another 

 implements, objects and organisms. As observers, it is true, 

 we have always to form the implements of the people observed 

 on the lines of our own diagrams and action-rules. But in 

 spite of the monotony of the material, it is quite possible for 

 us to detect great differences in the sensed-worlds we study. 



If we begin with the external envelope of the space of 

 the senses that surrounds each human being — the extended, 

 which encloses every world-as-sensed — we find, up to the 

 Middle Ages, a definite wall, an actual firmament, which shut 

 off the men of those days from the universe. Behind this 

 a deity was enthroned, dwelling in the incomprehensible. 

 Everything beneath the heavens obeyed his laws, which at 

 that time were horribly arbitrary, and kept men in a constant 

 state of fear and dread. 



Then (as Troels-Lund convincingly explains) came the 

 period of astrology. The sky, with the fixed stars, became a 

 vast clock-face, in front of which the planets circled like the 

 hands, and to him who knew how to read gave information of 

 his fate. The worlds-as-sensed acquired rigid laws ; every- 

 thing within them moved in time to the everlasting clock. 



Then Giordano Bruno rent open the roof of the heavens. 



