The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.
An oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society Cambridge, Aug. 31, 1837. Second edition (ed. 1838)
