LEAF AND TENDRIL 



and imaginative sense that we can speak of them 

 as the result of intelligence on the part of the things 

 themselves: we personify the things when we do 

 so. The universe is pervaded with mind, or with 

 something for which we have no other name. But 

 it is not as an ingenious machine, say the modern 

 printing-press, is pervaded with mind. The machine 

 is a senseless tool in the hands of an external intel- 

 ligence; in nature we see that the intelligence is 

 within and is inseparable from it. The machine is 

 the result of mind, but things in nature 'seem the 

 organs of mind. 



