It may sometimes be said to be interested in us, but not like a man in a man.

He even goes so far as to impute to Nature, but rarely, such an interest in us; but in reality he rather thinks that we, being Nature's end, have at such times touched for a moment some of those elements in her which have come down to us--elements apart from the soul.

And Browning takes care, even when he represents Nature as suddenly at one with us, to keep up the separateness.

The interest spoken of is not a human interest, nor resembles it.

It is like the interest Ariel takes in Prospero and Miranda--an elemental interest, that of a creature whose nature knows its radical difference from human nature.