It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think are the works of God with a sentiment of profoundest reverence, as the highest manifestations of the beautiful.
— Edgar Allan Poe Modern

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Essay: 'Eureka: A Prose Poem'

Date / Period

1848

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/eureka.htm

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