A tendency to God."B
B: Ibid.
There is nowhere a break in the continuity. God is at the beginning, His rapturous presence is seen in all the processes of nature, His power and knowledge and love work in the mind of man, and all history is His revelation of Himself.
The gap which yawns for ordinary thought between animate and inanimate, between nature and spirit, between man and God, does not baffle the poet. At the stage of human life, which is "the grand result" of nature's blind process,
"A supplementary reflux of light,
Illustrates all the inferior grades, explains
Each back step in the circle."C
C: Ibid.
Nature is retracted into thought, built again in mind.
"Man, once descried, imprints for ever