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"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a trust in God with a skillability in sleek technology. yet, in the French context, he's nearly as vital as they're simply because he has a pseudo-religious strength, with out taking a stand on faith. To outline him as in brief as attainable – he's a thinker, with a qualified education within the sciences, who dedicated many of the moment part of his occupation to selling that element of human nature which regularly turns out so much inimical to technology: the poetic mind's eye ..." – J.G. Weightman, The manhattan occasions evaluation of Books
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Moreover, this explanation, which amounts to the denial of any special nature, is quite curious. The necessity of the conclusion is not very apparent. It would seem that this conclusion merely came to interrupt a smoothly developing reverie which had been really only a matter of piling up synonyms. The realization that electric sparks coming from the charged human body could set fire to brandy caused real amazement. Electrical fire was then a true fire! " The reason for (his amazement The realization of heat and fire is also very suiking when carried out in connection with particular substances such as the vegetable substances.
Thus "the eminent dignity of the arts of fire" arises from the fact that their products bear the most profoundly human mark, the mark of primitive love. They are the works of a father. " 17 But the changes wrought by fire are changes in substance: that which has been licked by fire has a different taste in the mouths of men. That which fire has shone upon retains as a result an ineffaceable color. That which fire has caressed, loved, adored, has gained a store of memories and lost its innocence.
So the chemist misses his reaction. 51 me 53 ... PsychOCI17(/lyris of Fire the persistence of these images, in areas in wh~c~ dire~t symbolization remains confused, proves the sexual ongm of Ideas about fire. To realize this we need only to read in the books on alchemy the long account of the marriage o~ Fire and. Earth: Y':'T e can explain this marriage from three pomts of Vlew: ~n ~tS material meaning, as historians of chemistry always do; m Its poetic meaning as do literary critics; in its origio~l and unconscious meaning, as we propose CO do here.