This book is as true and living for us today as it was for the men of the second century of our era; it is as applicable to the European as to the Asiatic. 3. Its inexhaustible interest. Like God's book of nature, it is endless in its significance and undiminishing in its attractiveness. Dr. And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! If a martian graced our planet, it would be struck one remarkable similarity among Earth's living creatures and a key difference. Concerning similarity, it would note that all living things are designed on the basis of highly conserved developmental systems that read an (almost) universal language encoded in DNA base pairs. Dance allowed transgressive fantasies about both gender and power. Scheherazade, performed for the rst time in Paris in 1910, was based on the rst chapter of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights).In this story a despotic Persian king goes off hunting, and while he