Joseph Campbell — a remark

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“In towns the furthest we see is the other side of the street; but here there is no limit to one’s prospect—Perseus is as visible as Boötes—and one’s thought grows as space increases.”

Suggesting that physical horizons can enlarge the horizons of thought · Mearing Stones, Space

About Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

15 July 1879–6 June 1944

In the pantheon of Irish literary figures who shaped the cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century, Joseph Campbell occupies a unique position as both a guardian of ancient Gaelic traditions and a modernizing force in Irish poetry. Born on July 15, 1879, in Belfast, and dying on June 6, 1944, Campbell lived…

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