"Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
Like a wave in the physical world,
in the infinite ocean
of the medium which pervades all,
so in the world of organisms, in life
an impulse started
proceeds onward,
at times, may be, with the speed of light,
at times, again, so slowly
that for ages and ages it seems
to stay,
passing through processes of
a complexity
inconceivable to men,
but in all its forms, in all its stages,
its energy ever and ever
integrally present.
A single ray of light from a distant star
falling upon the eye of a tyrant
in bygone times
may have altered the course of his life,
may have changed the destiny of nations,
may have transformed the surface of the globe,
so
intricate,
so inconceivably complex
are the processes
in Nature.
In no way
can we get such an
overwhelming
idea of
the grandeur of Nature
than when we consider, that
in accordance with the law of the conservation of energy,
throughout the Infinite,
the forces are
in a perfect
balance,
and hence the energy
of a single
thought
may determine
the motion of
a universe."
You beautiful motherfucker.
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