Concept
Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture.
But his operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing, that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result.
疑いも無く、問うて答えられないような疑問は無い。私たちは、創造の完全を信じること、私たちが万物の秩序を見ていかに不思議に思うことがあっても、それは万物の秩序を十分に説明してくれるものであると信ずる程でなければならない。各人の境遇はみなその人が問おうと思う疑問に対する象形文字の解答である。