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Henry
Drummond On The Aliveness Of Man
Henry
Drummond, Natural Law In The Spiritual World (London: Hodder and
Stoughton; 1898), pp. 155-156.
‘Man is
a mass of correspondences, and because of these, because he is alive to
countless objects and influences to which lower organisms are dead, he is the
most living of all creatures. . . . The tree, in correspondence with a narrow
area of environment is to that extent alive; to all beyond, to the all but
infinite area beyond, it is dead. A still wider portion of this vast area is the
possession of the insect and the bird. Their’s [sic] also, nevertheless,
is but a little world, and to an immense further area insect and bird are dead.
All organisms likewise are living and dead – living to all within the
circumference of their correspondences, dead to all beyond. . . . [U]ntil man
appears there is no organism to correspond with the whole
environment.’
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