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Observing Ourselves

A Point of View

CHAPTER

The Mirror Test: A Guide to Virtue

Mel Gedroich: All cameras are essentially devices that employ mirrors in this way. He says the ancient Mexico saw through a different sort of glass darkly, an obsidian one. For today's utilitarian types, there's nothing to fear in the mirror, he writes. But we're too busy looking at ourselves to contemplate the divine, Mel adds.

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