Galileo's alter ego, humbled by the arts and inventions of his day, commented on language in its written form:
But surpassing all inventions, what sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time!
But surpassing all inventions, what sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time!
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