Pas sur la Lune

That it is so is a matter of experiential fact. But whether it is so or not is not a question to be settled by producing a microscope or telescope or any recondite observations of any kind. Its evidence stares us all in the face every hour of our lives. Nor is any ingenious reasoning needed to make it plain. If one does not see it, it is for the same reason that some men have not a sense of sin; and there is nothing for it but to be born again and become as a little child. If you do not see it, you have to look upon the world with new eyes. (CP 1.219, 1902)
The writer of a book can do nothing but set down the items of his thought. For the living thought, itself, in its entirety, the reader has to dig into his own soul. I think I have done my part, as well as I can. I am sorry to have left the reader an irksome chore before him. But he will find it worth the doing. (CP 1.221, 1902)

—Peirce, Charles Sanders (1931-1935). Collected Papers Of Charles Sanders Peirce, 8 vol. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Vols. 1–6 eds. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss; vols. 7–8 ed. Arthur Burks.

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