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«The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.»
«The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.»
«Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.»
«To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.»
«About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.»
«In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.»

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