Must abdicate its sovereignty?

A dog

Might sooner hope to leap beyond the mind

Of Newton than a man might hope to grasp

Even in this little whirl of earth and sun

The Scheme of the All-determining Absolute.

And yet—if that—the All-moving, were the One

Reality, and sustained and made all forms,

Then, by the self-same power in man himself

Whatever was real in man might understand