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Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

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“Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.”