"I cannot understand."
Answered the Sea,—
"Thy part is to pulse and pass,—never to understand. I also,—even I, the great Sea,—do not understand...."
Fr. II
... "The stones and the rocks have felt; the winds have been breath and speech; the rivers and oceans of earth have been locked into chambers of hearts. And the palingenesis cannot cease till every cosmic particle shall have passed through the uttermost possible experience of the highest possible life."
"But what of the planetary core?—has that, too, felt and thought?"
"Even so surely as that all flesh has been sun-fire! In the ceaseless succession of integrations and dissolutions, all things have shifted relation and place numberless billions of times. Hearts of old moons will make the surface of future worlds...."