Is it a sign of the approaching birth, or, even less than that, of the very first glow, low in the sky, of a day scarcely even heralded as yet, but in which we can already divine that thought the thought that has been speaking for thousands of years without knowing what speaking is or even that it is speaking is about to re apprehend itself in its entirety, and to illumine itself once more in the lightning ﬂash of being?