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Excerpt from The Development of the Nature-Sense in the German Lyric: A Comparison of the Two Great Lyric Periods
More servants wait on man Than he'll take note of: in ev'ry path He treads down that which doth befriend When sickness makes him pale and wan, O mighty love! Man is one world and hath Another to attend him. G. Herbert.
To the student of literature, interested in every force that operates upon it to color its pages, no theme should be more engaging than the in?uence of Nature. It may be doubted whether any other single in?uence is so important. Wars revolutions, crusades, migrations, are national, or at most international, and are temporal in their direct in?uence; but the in?uence of Nature is confined to nation nor time. In the beginning of things man was laid in the lap of Nature, and with every breath he drew life from her bosom, and that in?uence deepened when the nurse had become a companion, and deepens as man's life grows deeper even to the present day. Who can guess, says Emerson how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman? How much tranquility has been re?ected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forever drive ?ocks of clouds and leave no wrinkle nor stain? How much industry and providence and a?ection we have caught from the pan tomine of brutes?
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