"Bacon's world to explore opens into infinity, but it is the world of the outside. Man's whole attention is shifted outward... We have abandoned the past without realizing that without the past the pursued future has no meaning, that it leads, as Morris has anticipated, to the world of the artless, dehumanized man."

The Firmament of Time, p. 130

"Science seeks essentially to naturalize man in the structure of predictable law and conformity, whereas the artist is interested in man the individual. "

The Night Country, p. 138