PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
“ It is possible that our pre-ocCiA pation with the world as portrayed by natural science may have made us think meanly of human mature, forgetting that t hese marvels would have no existence if there were no minds, human or .divine, to perceive them. The little-known seventeenth-century poet, Thomas Traherne, has expressed the philosophy of nature and mind in very beautiful lines: “ ‘ All my mind was wholly everywhere. Whate’er it saw, ’twas actually there; The sun, ten thousand stages off, was nigh; Tire utmost star, Tho’ seen from far, Was present in the apple of mine eye. O wonder and delight! O sacred mystery! My soul a spirit wide and bright, An image of the Deity! A most substantial light! . That being greatest which did nothing seem.’” —DEAN INGE.
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 8
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132PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 8
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