NATURE
Nature, which he says〖H. C., V, 227.〗 “is loved by what is best in us,” is all about us, inviting our perception of its remotest and most cosmic principles by surrounding us with its simpler manifestations. “A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature.”〖H. C., V, 230.〗 Thus man “carries the world in his head.”〖H. C., V, 230〗 Whether he be a great scientist, proving by his discovery of a sweeping physical law that he has some such constructive sense as that which guides the universe, or whether he be a poet beholding trees as “imperfect men,” who “seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground,”〖H. C., V, 229.〗 he is being brought into his own by perceiving “the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind of material objects, whether inorganic or organized.”〖H. C., V, 237.〗