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Show But, having mad for himsel this hug shell, his waters retired; he no longer fill the veins and veinlets; he is shrunk to drop. H sees, that the structur still fit him, but fits him colossally. Say, rather once it fitted him, now it corresponds t him from far and on high. He adores timidly his own work. Now is man the follower of the sun, and woman the followe of the moon. Yet sometimes he starts i his slumber, and wonders at himself an his house, and muses strangely at th resemblance betwixt him and it. He perceives that if his law is still paramount, i still he have elemental power, "if his wor is sterling yet in nature,'" it is not consciou power, it is not inferior but superior to hi will. It is Instinct.' Thus my Orphic poe sang At present, man applies to nature but hal his force. He works on the world with hi understandin alone H live in it, an masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he tha work mos in it, is but a half-man, an whilst his arm are strong and his diges tion good, his mind is imbruted and he i a selfish savage. His relation to nature, hi power over it, is through the understanding 8 Digital Image © 2005 Marriott L |