We learn it also when we look back on the whole of nature that was before we were.

We illustrate and illuminate all that has been.

Nature is humanised, spiritualised by us.
We have imprinted ourselves on all things; and this, as we realise it, as we give thought and passion to lifeless nature, makes us understand how great we are, and how much greater we are bound to be.

We are the end of nature but not the end of ourselves.

We learn the same truth when among us the few men of genius appear; stars in the darkness.