Has He not given us the faculty of reflecting on Nature; of gathering it within us by thought; of making it a footstool and stepping-stone from and by which to rise to Him?
We love according to the greater or the lesser portion of heaven our souls contain.

But do not be unjust, Minna; behold the magnificence spread before you.

Ocean expands at your feet like a carpet; the mountains resemble ampitheatres; heaven's ether is above them like the arching folds of a stage curtain.

Here we may breathe the thoughts of God, as it were like a perfume.

See! the angry billows which engulf the ships laden with men seem to us, where we are, mere bubbles; and if we raise our eyes and look above, all there is blue.