- Tormentum dark sorrow all paintings restored full#
- Tormentum dark sorrow all paintings restored series#
Tormentum dark sorrow all paintings restored full#
And, in this case, the fact is the Sisyphæan process, in the course of which, the living and growing plant passes from the relative simplicity and latent potentiality of the seed to the full epiphany of a highly differentiated type, thence to fall back to simplicity and potentiality. Or it may seem preferable to compare the expansion of the germ into the full-grown plant, to the unfolding of a fan, or to the rolling forth and widening of a stream and thus to arrive at the conception of 'development,' or 'evolution.' Here as elsewhere, names are 'noise and smoke' the important point is to have a clear and adequate conception of the fact signified by a name. Or we may say that the living energy takes first an upward and then a downward road. It may be likened to the ascent and descent of a slung stone, or the course of an arrow along its trajectory. Neither the poetic nor the scientific imagination is put to much strain in the search after analogies with this process of going forth and, as it were, returning to the starting-point. By degrees, the plant withers and disappears from view, leaving behind more or fewer apparently inert and simple bodies, just like the bean from which it sprang and, like it, endowed with the potentiality of giving rise to a similar cycle of manifestations. But no sooner has the edifice, reared with such exact elaboration, attained completeness, than it begins to crumble. In each of these complicated structures, as in their smallest constituents, there is an immanent energy which, in harmony with that resident in all the others, incessantly works towards the maintenance of the whole and the efficient performance of the part which it has to play in the economy of nature.
Tormentum dark sorrow all paintings restored series#
A small green seedling emerges, rises to the surface of the soil, rapidly increases in size and, at the same time, undergoes a series of metamorphoses which do not excite our wonder as much as those which meet us in legendary history, merely because they are to be seen every day and all day long.īy insensible steps, the plant builds itself up into a large and various fabric of root, stem, leaves, flowers, and fruit, every one moulded within and without in accordance with an extremely complex but, at the same time, minutely defined pattern. Yet, if planted under proper conditions, of which sufficient warmth is one of the most important, it manifests active powers of a very remarkable kind. It is, as you know, a simple, inert looking thing. I beg you to accompany me in an attempt to reach a world which, to many, is probably strange, by the help of a bean. My present enterprise has a certain analogy to that of the daring adventurer. The hero, being moved to climb the stalk, discovers that the leafy expanse supports a world composed of the same elements as that below, but yet strangely new and his adventures there, on which I may not dwell, must have completely changed his views of the nature of things though the story, not having been composed by, or for, philosophers, has nothing to say about views.
It is a legend of a bean-plant, which grows and grows until it reaches the high heavens and there spreads out into a vast canopy of foliage.
But so many of our grave and reverend juniors have been brought up on severer intellectual diet, and, perhaps, have become acquainted with fairyland only through primers of comparative mythology, that it may be needful to give an outline of the tale. There is a delightful child's story, known by the title of "Jack and the Bean-stalk," with which my contemporaries who are present will be familiar. Soleo enim et in aliena castra transire, non tanquam transfuga sed tanquam explorator. Huxley at time of delivery of Romanes Lecture
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