W. How can that which is not nature inspire? Hast thou need of what is not nature? When thou askest, how can nature inspire? dost thou not know that mind is nature, and as mind is nature, so nature inspires.
T. Then what is spirit but nature?
W. Thou wilt answer, “what is not wisdom is nature.”
T. Truly. That which has no wisdom is nature, and that which has wisdom is spirit.
W. Have thy words a spirit?
T. They are the productions of a spirit.
W. Is not nature the production of a spirit?
T. Yea; and so are all things.
W. Then, if all things be the production of a spirit, nature is the production of a spirit, and, if nature be the production of a spirit, thou seest nature unites to show what the spirit has done. It is the work of the spirit, and what is the work of a spirit is a revelation of its wisdom. Thou seest that the work must reveal the character and skill of the workman. That development, revealed by the work, is the inspiration of nature. It is the voice of God, which inspires his creatures with veneration.
T. But what wilt thou say of the Bible?