In the canon
The New Science
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1725
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 460
Thunder breaks over a forest full of wandering giants, the brute descendants of the Flood, and for the first time someone looks up in terror and decides the sky is alive. That, says Giambattista Vico, is where we begin: with a frightened creature inventing a god, and soon after a marriage and a grave.
There shines this eternal light that never sets, of a truth beyond all doubt: that this civil world was certainly made by men.
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