This post is for the Stonehenge solstice crowd, who might,
like the London artist Steve Richards, confuse bullshit
with scholarship and inspire the same confusion
in others.
The image, apparently an epigraph put there
by the author, is from the Forgotten Books edition
of Cassirer's Substance and Function:
And Einstein's Theory of Relativity .
This is a scanned copy of the 1923 original.
The egg-figure above, however, is from the publisher's
prefatory notes and not from the original.
A check of other Forgotten Books publications
shows that the motto and the Bacon
attribution are those of Forgotten Books and
not of the authors they reprint — in particular,
not of Ernst Cassirer, who would probably
be dismayed to have this nonsense associated
with his work.
Why nonsense? The attribution to Francis Bacon is
false. The lines are from "The Phoenix and the Turtle"
by William Shakespeare.