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“In the wide realm of the world there are ancient forms, incorruptible and eternal forms—any one of them might be the symbol I sought. A mountain might be the word of the god, or a river or the empire or the arrangement of the stars. And yet, in the course of the centuries mountains are leveled and the path of a river is diverted, and empires know mutability and ruin, and the design of the stars is altered.”

“Tennyson said that if we could but understand a single flower we might know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he was trying to say that there is nothing, however humble, that does not imply the history of the world and its infinite concatenation of causes and effects.”