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So, if a giant left impressions of his bare feet in the ground, that 

 is not to say that he was a primitive bulk of culture out taking the 

 Kneipp cure. So, if Stonehenge is a large, but only roughly 

 geometric construction, the inattention to details by its builders 

 signifies anything you please ambitious dwarfs or giants if giants, 

 that they were little more than cave men, or that they were post- 

 impressionist architects from a very far-advanced civilization. 



If there are other worlds, there are tutelary worlds or that Kep- 

 ler, for instance, could not have been absolutely wrong: that his 

 notion of an angel assigned to push along and guide each planet 

 may not be very acceptable, but that, abstractedly, or in the notion 

 of a tutelary relation, we may find acceptance. 



Only to be is to be tutelary. 



Our general expression: 



That "everything*' in Intermediateness is not a thing, but is an 

 endeavor to become something by breaking away from its con- 

 tinuity, or merging away, with all other phenomena is an attempt 

 to break away from the very essence of a relative existence and 

 become absolute if it have not surrendered to, or become part of, 

 some higher attempt: 



That to this process there are two aspects: 



Attraction, or the spirit of everything to assimilate all other 

 things if it have not given in and subordinated to or have not 

 been assimilated by some higher attempted system, unity, organ- 

 ization, entity, harmony, equilibrium 



And repulsion, or the attempt of everything to exclude or dis- 

 regard the unassimilable. 



Universality of the process: 



Anything conceivable: 



A tree. It is doing all it can to assimilate substances of the soil 

 and substances of the air, and sunshine, too, into tree-substance: 

 obversely it is rejecting or excluding or disregarding that which it 

 can not assimilate. 



Cow grazing, pig rooting, tiger stalking: planets trying, or acting, 

 to capture comets; rag pickers and the Christian religion, and a cat 

 dow.i headfirst in a garbage can; nations fighting for more territory, 

 sciences correlating the data they can, trust magnates organizing, 

 chorus girl out for a little late supper all of them stopped some- 

 where by the unassimilable. Chorus girl and the broiled lobster. 

 If she eats not shell and all she represents universal failure to posi- 



