Is Browning less sane than elsewhere when 

 THE GARDEN , , , 



he declares, 



For many a thrill 



Of kinship I confess to, with the powers 

 Called nature; animate, inanimate, 

 In part or in the whole, there's something there 

 Manlike, that somehow meets the man in me? 



Or Emerson when he says, "The greatest 

 delight the fields and woods minister is the sug- 

 gestion of an occult relation between man and 

 the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowl- 

 edged. They nod to me and I to them" ? 



Of course, poetic reflection is not scientific 

 evidence. But does the scientist, by his 

 methods, discern the deepest and highest truth 

 of nature? Do we not all at times realize that 

 for real interpretation of nature there must be 

 the soul of a poet and the gift of an artist? 

 The artist often tells us that in his pictures he 

 has striven to express what he calls the "moods 

 of nature. " Of course, it may be said that the 

 artist means merely his own moods as they 



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