Wonder

Augustine, Confessions 10.8.15 (tr. R.S. Pine Coffin): Yet men go out and gaze in astonishment at high mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad reaches of rivers, the ocean that encircles the world, or the stars in their courses. But they pay no attention to themselves. et eunt homines mirari alta montium et ingentes fluctus maris et latissimos lapsus fluminum et oceani ambitum et gyros siderum, et relinquunt se ipsos. James J. O'Donnell ad loc. (vol. 3, p. 180):