Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as the soul of a man, the soul of a plant, the genius or constitution of any part of nature, which makes it what it is. The thought which was in the world, part and parcel of the world, has disengaged itself and taken an independent existence.
If we are to transform the world of things, to hear their voices as did Adam, we must allow them to speak again from that old fire that we have quenched with externality. As long as they are “they” (even if that “they” be “Thou”), they will at most whisper — unquiet voices kept low so as not to disturb.
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