[Seraphita by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link book
Seraphita

CHAPTER IV
33/49

Ask Love the Divine to grant you his wings and you can cross that gulf.

Beyond it begins the revelation of the Word.
"No part of those things which you call material is without its own meaning; lines are the boundaries of solid parts and imply a force of action which you suppress in your formulas,--thus rendering those formulas false in relation to substances taken as a whole.

Hence the constant destruction of the monuments of human labor, which you supply, unknown to yourselves, with acting properties.

Nature has substances; your science combines only their appearances.

At every step Nature gives the lie to all your laws.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books