From our earliest hour we have been taught that the
thought Of the heart. the shaping Of the rain-cloud,
the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back. the
length of a drought. and the growing of the corn,
depend on nothing that moves at the
heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a
changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. TO us,
from the beginning. Nature has been but a poor
plastic thing. to be toyed with this way or that. as man
happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or
not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a
Sunday or not. Was it possible for us inan instant to
see Nature as she is 'the flowing vestment Of an
unchanging reality?
iEHD.CCM
Olive Schreiner
Writer
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