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A CHILD OF NATURE 
ing, touch, smell, taste ; which in 
some mysterious way seemed to 
mingle the life of the body and of 
the spirit into one indivisible, un- 
conscious, throbbing life ; he lived 
not on the surface of the world, 
where a thousand beautiful appear- 
ances flashed upon his vision and 
then vanished, but in the deep, 
flowing, invisible life of Nature. 
Like the older myth-makers, he 
was caught up in the universal 
movement of things and borne 
aloft into ecstasies of vision. If he 
had understood his own emotions 
or been able to give them speech, 
he would have fashioned out of his 
dreams and the deep joys of his 
spirit a figure as elusive, as spon- 
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