The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges.

  • Robert Bridges
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[1930]
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Credit: The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    so with his manhood groweth his idea of God, wider ever and worthier, untill it may contain and reconcile in reason all wisdom passion and love, and bring at last (may God so grant) Christ’s Peace on Earth. Nor coud it ever dwell in my possible thought that whatsoever grew and groweth can be unlike in cause and substance to the thing it groweth on: Thus I saw Conscience as a natural flower-bud on its vigorous plant specialized to a function marvelously, a blossom first unique in design of beauty, in colour and form, thickening therefrom to a fruit productiv to infinit regeneration; and yet this bud—as any primer of botany can teach— is but a differentiation of the infertile leaf, which held all this miracle in intrinsic potence. Thus science would teach, and Heraclitus, I say, was not the least among the sages of Hellas, Nor those fire-worshippers foolish who, seeing the Sun to be the efficient cause of all life upon earth, welcomed his full effulgence for their symbol of God. And since we observe in all existence four stages—- Atomic, Organic, Sensuous, and Selfconscient— and must conceive these in gradation, it was no flaw in Leibnitz to endow his monad-atoms with Mind: ( 19 ) 420 430
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