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Show individuals proceed, centuries are points and all history is but the epoch of on degradation «We distrust and deny inwardly our sympathy with nature. We own and disow our relation to it by turns. W are, lik Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of rea son, and eating grass like an ox. But wh can set limits to th remedia spirit ¢A man is a god in ruins. Whe innocent forc me o ar life shall be longer, & shall pas into the immortal, as gently as we awak from dreams & Now, the world woul be insane and rabid, if these disorganiza tions should last for hundreds of years It is kept in check by death and infancy Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, whic comes into the arms of fallen men, an pleads with them to return to paradise @ ‘Man is the dwarf of himself. Once h was permeated and dissolved by spirit. H filled nature with his overflowing currents Out from him sprang the sun and moon fro man th sun fro woman th moon. The laws of his mind, the period of his actions externized themselves int day and night, into the year & the seasons 8 Digital imag © 2005 Marriott Li |