Goldsmith Began

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    Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
    And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
    Václav Havel (b. 1936)