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THE ancients were for the most part content to regard the universe as a theatre which had been specially constructed for the drama of human life. Men, and even the gods that man had created in his own image, came, lived, and disappeared after strutting their tiny hour upon a stage to which the eternal hills and the unchanging heavens formed a permanent background. While some thought was given to the birth of the universe, and its creation or emergence from chaos, very few thought of it as living its life and passing from birth to death in the same way as a man or a tree passes from birth to death.
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JEANS, J. The Physics of the Universe1. Nature 122, 689–700 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122689a0
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