He connected these movements by imagining a cannon on a mountain shooting a series of cannonballs parallel to the earth's surface.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
Mushrooms and the swifter-growing plants will shoot into being so rapidly as to appear instantaneous creations; annual shrubs will rise and fall from the earth like restlessly boiling water springs; the motions of animals will be as invisible as are to us the movements of bullets and cannonballs; the sun will scour through the sky like a meteor, leaving a fiery trail behind him, etc."
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
He saw a connection between these movements by imagining a cannon on a mountain shooting a series of cannonballs parallel to the earth's surface.
"Our Legal Heritage"
S. A. Reilly