现实是一个视角问题;你离过去越远,它看起来就越具体和可信——但当你接近现在时,它不可避免地显得越来越不可思议。
释义:即使家庭贫困,也要保留读书的希望;即使生活富裕,也不能忘记劳动的艰辛。
The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one.