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Now Schelling 7 s system of philosophy 

 makes a close parallelism between the 

 internal and external worlds, to which it 

 allows an equal reality, making both, 

 however, but parallel manifestations of 

 some higher and more inclusive reality, 

 which is the thinker and the thought. 

 Natural facts are mere manifestations 

 of mind. This is a favourite saying 

 with Schelling as with Agassiz ; but 

 Agassiz is almost entirely concerned with 

 the derivation of Nature from the mind 

 of God, and pays less attention to the 

 reciprocal relations between human 

 thought and the things that cause it. 

 " Every thing organic is more or less of 

 a symbol. A plant is a corporealised 

 throb of the soul. 77 This is Schelling 7 s, 

 and may well suggest Agassiz 7 s maxim, 

 " A species is a thought of the Crea- 

 tor. 7 7 But Schelling soon drifts toward 

 poetry, and indeed his ideas are best 

 known in English through his influence 

 on "Wordsworth and Coleridge. "The 



