Nature

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   The sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.

   To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

   The human genius is creative when it copies Nature, and imitative when it aims to invent.

   Within was a small chamber, chilly as an ice-house, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat.

   Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.