The Skywatcher's Diary Daily information on the skies posted by Michigan State University's Abrams Planetarium. The Moon lies below the bright star Regulus in the eastern sky just after sunset. The crescent Moon makes a striking threesome with Jupiter and Venus in the west, again just after sunset. Or again, facts are conceived as a voting democracy, or a vulgar multitude, which determines by a majority of votes the laws that are to 'govern' it. I suggest that all this is wrong.
Facts are the true aristocrats of the spiritual world.
We need to recover that reverence for fact which Carlyle extolled so highly, and deplored so bitterly, as the lost virtue of the modern world. Eagerness to find the facts must not be confused with reverence for them when found. All rights reserved.