The aspect of nature is devout.(Like the figure of Jesus.)The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Of that ineffable essence(the greatest thing that cannot be described by words.) Essence refuses to be recorded in propositions, i.e., by languages and thoughts.
Three essential problems: What is matter? Whence is it? and Whereto?
What is matter? Matter is a phenomenon, not a substance. Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being. The mind us a part of the nature of things; the world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of days.
Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles that those of carpentry(木工手艺，木工活) and chemistry. Matter and spirit need to exist together to satisfy each other's functions.
Whence is it? and Whereto?
GOT CONFUSED BY THIS====>We learn that the highest is present to the soul of man; that the dread universal essence, which is not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one, and each entirely, is that for which all things exist, and that by which they are; that spirit creates; that behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present; one and not compound it does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God.
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