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himself to be in the epoch of the plastic 

 Psyche, whose forms are pouring forth with 

 dazzling rapidity into the world of reality. 

 And we may dream of some future return of 

 the plastic Physis, shaped no longer purely 

 by the instinctive impulse of Nature, but by 

 the conscious purpose of Man, who ultimately 

 needs not to take anything for granted in the 

 Universe, except the Universe with himself 

 thrown in. 



But such a time is far removed and cannot 

 much concern us now; so we shall come back 

 to the theme which lies directly on our path. 



