Categories: Comparisons
An historical example of an analogy used to understand nature:
"Things are also analogous to man in the famous alchemical concept of the microcosm and the macrocosm: the rocks of the earth are its bones, the rivers its veins, the forests its hair and the cicadas its dandruff."
Morris Berman (1981). The Reenchantment of the World. Cornell University Press.
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