Science-scientif reasoning- seems to me an instrument that will lag far, far behind. For look her; the earth has been thought to be flat. It wasa true, so it still is today, for instance between Paris and Asnieres. Which, however, does not prevent science from proving that the earth is principally round. Which no one contradicts nowadays.
But notwithstanding this they persist nowadays in believeing that “life is flat” and runs from birth to death. However, life too is probably round, and very superior in expanse and capacity to the hemispher we know at present.
Futrue generations wil probably enlighten us on this so very interesting subject; and then maybe Science itself will arrive- willy-nilly- at conclusions more or less parallel to the sayings of Christ with the reference to the other half of our existence…..
—Vincent Van Gogh. Letter to Emilie Bernard. June 1888
