Thoughts on health and some of its conditions / [James Hinton].

  • Hinton, James, 1822-1875
Date:
1871
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    thoughts when we bring the highest within us to interpret that which we perceive without ; and recall (as we are justified in doing by all that science teaches us) the long banished powers of the heart and soul, to aid us in our thought of nature. Goethe says, in Dr. Whewell’s translation :— All the forms resemble, yet none is the same as another ; Thus the whole of the throng points at a deep-hidden law— Points at a sacred riddle. Oh, could I to thee, my beloved friend, Whisper the fortunate word by which the riddle is read ! But here we do not feel ourselves compelled to end. Our thoughts pursue the path that has been opened to them ; and it hardly seems extravagant to us (ascribing a strict truth and universal applica- tion to the words of another poet) to say of all our intercourse with Nature, in her loftiest and lowest forms alike :— A spirit— The undulating woods, and silent well, And rippling rivulet, and evening gloom When deepening the dark shades, for speech assuming— Holds commune with us.