Incipit

Time and Space By H.P. Lovecraft Of the various conceptions brought before the human mind by the advance of Science, what can be compared in strangeness and magnitude with that of eternity and infinity, as presented by modern astronomy? Nothing more deeply disturbs our settled egotism and self-importance, than the realisation of man’s utter insignificance which comes with a knowledge of his position in time and space. Life, or at least life upon our earth and the other planets of the solar system, extends but a little distance, relatively speaking, into the past; for the nebular hypothesis …

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