The ethics of rest

Abstract

Introduction: “To him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms she speaks a various language.” The forms of nature are so seemingly simple and withal so complex, her modes of development are so perfect and the likeness between parts which are apparently as far separated as can be, is so finely drawn, when one sleeps. I think of the analogies existing, that no one can express the thought more appropriately than did Bryant when he said “She speaks a various language.”