The ceremonies in the gathering were first inducted by the Venetians.

Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.

Modern thought renounces the pure transparency of the Cartesian cogito in the recognition that the cogito is intrinsically tied to an unthought which escapes the reflection of the cogito even as it makes this reflection possible.

In Ireland, just at this time undergoing its literary revival, the Edenic moment was displaced back into the pre-Christian (and therefore presectarian) past and the model figures that emerged as types of Irish identity were, of necessity, legendary—like Cuchalain—and, by nature, susceptible to almost any reformulation.