4. The Threshold In Nature and In Man
GA 80b/1921-02-01/p036
·1921-02-01
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English
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> Still the cry goes,
> ‘Thrice happy he
> To whom she shows
> Even her outer shell.’
> For sixty years I have heard that cry;
> I curse it, but secretly, silently,
> Say to myself a thousand times,
> Gladly she gives and she gives us all!
> Nature is neither kernel nor shell,
> She is both in one; she is one and all.
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