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+------ Thema: Newman, John Henry, Cardinal: SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW. (/showthread.php?tid=17433)
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal: SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW. - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007
SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW.
THEY do but grope in learning's pedant round
Who on the fantasies of sense bestow
An idol substance, bidding us bow low
Before those shades of being which are found,
Stirring or still, on man's brief trial-ground ;
As if such shapes and modes, which come and go,
Had aught of Truth or Life in their poor show,
To sway or judge, and skill to sain or wound.
Son of immortal seed, high-destined man !
Know thy dread gift, - a creature, yet a cause :
Each mind is its own centre, and it draws
Home to itself, and moulds in its thought's span,
All outward things, the vassals of its will,
Aided by Heaven, by earth unthwarted still,