The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature is astonishment, and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.

Burke, Edmund: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

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