Sunshine and health / by Ronald Campbell MacFie.

  • Ronald Campbell Macfie
Date:
1927
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Credit: Sunshine and health / by Ronald Campbell MacFie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUNSHINE AND HEALTH CHAPTER I LIGHT HISTORICAL “ Hail, Holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born ! ” Light, as an optical phenomenon, is and has always been the most intense and dramatic experience of man. The subtle and mysteri- ous emanation or radiation issuing from the gigantic orb of the sun, and penetrating, after filtration, reflection, and refraction, the tiny orb of the eye, creates for man a daedal universe of form and colour, and becomes the foundation both of his sensuous and spiritual existence. The thought is almost bewildering ! Here is a fragile little ball about the size of a gooseberry; and there, 93,000,000 miles away, is another fiery, whirling ball billions of billions of times as large; and something from the big ball touches the little ball, and the little ball becomes an infinite consciousness filled with visions of suns, and stars, and mountains, and
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