Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to
be forgotten. To Homer, the dawn was "rosy-fingered"; to
Shakespeare, it was "in russet mantle clad"; to Housman, "the
ship of sunrise burning". The scientist can explain exactly
why the sky looks as it does in the early morning, the
physiologist why we perceive as we do. Yet no one suggests
that there is no dawn at all, or that its appearance has
changed over the centuries, or that any one of these
percipients was mad or deceitful. Why should our knowledge of
the Creator be less capable of variety and development than our
knowledge of any aspect of Creation?
Raymond Chapman, The Ruined Tower [1961]
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