INTELLIGENCE OF FLOWERS 



quickens all things or emanates from them is of the same 

 essence as that which quickens our bodies. If this spirit re- 

 sembles us, if we thus resemble it, if all that it contains is 

 contained also within ourselves, if it employs our methods, 

 if it has our habits, our preoccupations, our tendencies, our 

 desires for better things, is it illogical for us to hope all that 

 we instinctively and invincibly do hope, seeing that it is al- 

 most certain that it hopes the same? Is it likely, when we 

 find so great a sum total of intelligence, scattered throughout 

 life, that this life should perform no work of intelligence, that 

 is to say, should not pursue an aim of happiness, of perfec- 

 tion, of victory over that which we call evil, death, darkness, 

 annihilation, but which is probably only life's sleep or the 

 shadow of its face? 



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