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Carnaby The First.
teems , pulsates , and rings with energy . All forms of vitality are an electric sprouting-. From the very centre of the starting mass , by an unseen sort of sclf-exercitation , it radiates . The ; round of articulations is the restless fruitage of a pregnant nature . Trees , bushes , ancl plants arc a mathematical efflux .
Forms of all kinds are nature striving for expression . Natural meaning wreaks itself in shape . The innumerable forms of articulate animals are but earth under another name : they are the impulse of nature , forced beyond its original superficial limits—a dropped product—a highly-Avrought , organically active growth—the mechanic concentration up to a pointand then
, its spreading fitness to a certain set of new conditions . Locomotive life is an independent and fructified perfection . As the apex and end of this grand tree-like superfecundation , and as the triumph of a Flora , we behold Man . In all his mechanic glory he is nature's primest self assertion . Knit in one common origin withand compounded ofthe same congregate and active
, , atoms as the feeblest item of the universal efflorescence , his brethren are the plants . Thus allied by a thousand ramifying links to that universal groAvth bursting out all over the world , Man himself , in his ultimate disentanglement from it , may be regarded but as the disengaged and locomotive A egetable !"
At this point of the discourse , I felt a sudden thumping at my breast , almost as if some one wished admittance therein . A thickheaded sort of unintelligible conviction beset me that some one Avas calling up an area , tinned within-side a house , and possessing some unimaginable means of communicating with myself , high up in the air , in some outrageous cockloft , Avhere
half of me was Avithout and the other half Avithin , and where I was madly endeavouring to escape from the violent solicitations from below , ancl yet compelled to attend to them . All at once , by opening my eyes , or somehow , I became aware of an altogether new state of affairs , for / awoke ; and in the moment of my coming to myself aAvay Avas rolled aside the Indian plain
, Avith all the trees in it , like a curtain . The speakers stepped into cupboards , as it were . Things gradually settled down about me , ancl the corners of the room betook themselves into their places . Two AvindoAvs came behind me ; tAVo decanters and a glass rose up before me on a table that seemed to ascend grandlylike a theatrical trickout of a floor that I all at once
, , discovered had a carpet on it . I now discovered IIOAV the matter stood . I had had my dinner , and , after it , being very comfortably deposited in an arm-chair , Avith my book in my hand ancl close beside a good fire , I had fallen asleep ( which was all ) , and I had had a nightmare .
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Carnaby The First.
teems , pulsates , and rings with energy . All forms of vitality are an electric sprouting-. From the very centre of the starting mass , by an unseen sort of sclf-exercitation , it radiates . The ; round of articulations is the restless fruitage of a pregnant nature . Trees , bushes , ancl plants arc a mathematical efflux .
Forms of all kinds are nature striving for expression . Natural meaning wreaks itself in shape . The innumerable forms of articulate animals are but earth under another name : they are the impulse of nature , forced beyond its original superficial limits—a dropped product—a highly-Avrought , organically active growth—the mechanic concentration up to a pointand then
, its spreading fitness to a certain set of new conditions . Locomotive life is an independent and fructified perfection . As the apex and end of this grand tree-like superfecundation , and as the triumph of a Flora , we behold Man . In all his mechanic glory he is nature's primest self assertion . Knit in one common origin withand compounded ofthe same congregate and active
, , atoms as the feeblest item of the universal efflorescence , his brethren are the plants . Thus allied by a thousand ramifying links to that universal groAvth bursting out all over the world , Man himself , in his ultimate disentanglement from it , may be regarded but as the disengaged and locomotive A egetable !"
At this point of the discourse , I felt a sudden thumping at my breast , almost as if some one wished admittance therein . A thickheaded sort of unintelligible conviction beset me that some one Avas calling up an area , tinned within-side a house , and possessing some unimaginable means of communicating with myself , high up in the air , in some outrageous cockloft , Avhere
half of me was Avithout and the other half Avithin , and where I was madly endeavouring to escape from the violent solicitations from below , ancl yet compelled to attend to them . All at once , by opening my eyes , or somehow , I became aware of an altogether new state of affairs , for / awoke ; and in the moment of my coming to myself aAvay Avas rolled aside the Indian plain
, Avith all the trees in it , like a curtain . The speakers stepped into cupboards , as it were . Things gradually settled down about me , ancl the corners of the room betook themselves into their places . Two AvindoAvs came behind me ; tAVo decanters and a glass rose up before me on a table that seemed to ascend grandlylike a theatrical trickout of a floor that I all at once
, , discovered had a carpet on it . I now discovered IIOAV the matter stood . I had had my dinner , and , after it , being very comfortably deposited in an arm-chair , Avith my book in my hand ancl close beside a good fire , I had fallen asleep ( which was all ) , and I had had a nightmare .