"the two perpetually in struggle"

[Mark Kohut]

Great associational linkage. 

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On Aug 30, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in
> almost all science. ... The fate of human civilization will depend on
> whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or
> a hydrogen bomb."
> 
> — Sir Bernard Lovell, The Individual and the Universe (1959), 73.
> 
> http://todayinsci.com/L/Lovell_Bernard/LovellBernard-Quotations.htm
> 
> Cf./vs. ...
> 
> ". . . Manichaeans who see two Rockets, good and evil, who speak
> together in the acred idiolalia of the Primal Twins (some say their
> names are Enzian and Blicero), of
> a good Rocket to take us to the Stars, an evil Rocket for the World's
> suicide, the two perpetually in struggle." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 727)
> 
> https://books.google.com/books?id=GGPm4I3BbxAC&pg=PA727
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