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The fundamental error of imagining that
human life was fundamentally different
from the rest of nature gave rise to many an odd doctrine.
Aristotle argued that only the heavens were pure,
Plato that the real world is static and archetypical and
the flux of perceived existence
but an illusion. But, then as now,
others were willing to conceive of themselves as
immersed in a changing cosmos.
If Plato in his Olympian home is today disturbed by
the cosmos in flux we believe we have discovered, his
predecessor Heraclites, who saw change in everything, warms his
hands on the fires of the galaxies.
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