To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.
ATTRIBUTION:
Walter Pater (1839–1894), British writer, educator. originally published in the Westminster Review (Jan. 1866). “Coleridge’s Writings,” p. 65, repr., Expanded, as “Coleridge” in Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Macmillan (1889).
