A tour through the Pyrenees . 5o8 BAGNERES AND LUCHON. Book IV. nurtures me. And yet in this all-powerful natureI count for something. If among her works I amthe most fragile, I am also the last; if she con-fines me within a corner of her expanse, it is in methat she ends. It is in me that she attains the in-divisible point where she is concentred and per-fected ; and this mind through which she knowsherself opens to her a new career in reproducingher works, imitating her order, penetrating herwork, feeling its magnificence and eternity. In itis opened a second world reflecting the other, re-f
A tour through the Pyrenees . 5o8 BAGNERES AND LUCHON. Book IV. nurtures me. And yet in this all-powerful natureI count for something. If among her works I amthe most fragile, I am also the last; if she con-fines me within a corner of her expanse, it is in methat she ends. It is in me that she attains the in-divisible point where she is concentred and per-fected ; and this mind through which she knowsherself opens to her a new career in reproducingher works, imitating her order, penetrating herwork, feeling its magnificence and eternity. In itis opened a second world reflecting the other, re-flecting itself also, and, beyond itself and thatother, grasping the eternal law which engendersthem both. To-morrow I shall die, and I am notcapable of displacing any portion of this rock. Butduring one moment I have thought, and within thelimits of that thouorht nature and the universe
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