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Updated: July 29, 2025
We cannot expect an eagle in a similar way to have that sensitiveness of soul which would enable it to enter into the soul of Nature, understand Nature, and so see its Beauty. But what we cannot expect of the eagle we can expect of man. We can expect an Artist to appear who will be to the Earth what the artist-midge was to the man. Man does to some extent enter into the soul of Nature.
The sense of Beauty we all possess in some slight degree is in itself a proof that behind the outward appearance of Nature there is a spiritual reality an "I" just as behind the outward appearance of the man which the artist-midge sees there is the "I" of the man.
In regard to his relationship with Nature he is like the finely sensitive and cultured artist-midge would be in regard to a man the midge who, through understanding the inner soul and character of the man, was able to read the expression on his features and see their beauty.
But now supposing that among all the midges that buzz about a man there happened to be an artist-midge with exceeding sensitiveness of soul, one which was able to recognise a fundamental identity of life between it and the man, one which was able to recognise samenesses of feelings and emotions and aspirations, and by recognition of the samenesses between it and the man enter into the very life and soul of the man, then that midge would be able to understand all the varying expressions on the face of the man, and by understanding those expressions see their beauty.
When, therefore, our Artist sums up his impressions of Nature as epitomised in the life of the forest; when he has been able to feel that he has, as it were, got inside the skin of Nature, entered into her Spirit and really understood her as the artist-midge we have referred to would enter into the nature of a man and try and understand him he will probably find that Nature works in very much the same way as he himself works, and is of much the same character as himself.
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