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Beauty as a Compass for Truth
Beauty and elevation flash from the currents set up by intense speculation. Beauty is not the aim of the writer. His aim must be truth. But beauty and elevation shine out of him while he is on the quest. His mind is on the problem; and as he unravels it, and displays it, he communicates his own spirit, as it were incidentally, as it were unwittingl
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Different does not mean unrelated. In this book I show that these two perceptions — the feeling that time accelerates with age, and the attraction of beauty — are both part of the same natural design, in accord with the constructal law1. They are an integral aspect of the human animal, striving to live and improve along the way. The perceptions of
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