2. Walter Pat
WP / 1873
From Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Like the elements of which we are composed, the action of these forces extends beyond us; it rusts iron and ripens corn. Far out on every side of us those elements are broadcast, driven by many forces; and birth and gesture and death and the springing of violets from thre but a few out of ten thousand resultant combinations. That clear, perpetual
outline of face and limb it an image of ours, under which we group them - a design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it.
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