The Hand of God

A companion volume to the previous one and designed along the same lines: a combination of breathtaking photographs with uplifting quotations from great thinkers on facing pages. Many of the images come from the Hubble telescope and represent immensities (200,000 light years across a galaxy) on a scale that simply beggars the human imagination. A quotation from Schopenhauer strikes a cautionary note: 'everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world'. A magnificent book.