Philosophy is the science of self- analysis, through philosophising we begin to perceive that Nature or the outer world is similar to a human being, we find out that we can only begin to comprehend things in the same way in which we know ourselves and those dearest to us. At last we realise the true bond of union between subject and object, and discover that even in our own selves there is an outer world, which stands in the same relation to our inner selves that our outer life bears to the outer world, that the latter are as closely connected as our outer and inner life, and, therefore, we can only comprehend the inner life and soul of Nature by reflection, even as it is only by sensation that our outer life comes in contact with material forces." "The road leads inwards, inwards to the depths of the Ego ; the highest task of culture is self mastery of the inner life, so that it may become indeed the true Ego." " We are called to the culti vation of the Earth," he says, " she takes man's impression. Humanity is the higher sense of our planet, the nerve that connects this portion (of the Universe) with a higher world, the Eye that it lifts to Heaven." For Novalis Man is tj Mediator between God and Nature. " Nature shall become moral, we are her teachers, her moral tangents, her moral attraction." Novalis
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