Excerpt: ...of nature is modern, but it no more endows him with new feeling than modern knowledge of anatomy supplies him with a new bone or his latest knowledge about his blood furnishes him with an additional artery. Old are our instincts and passions about Nature: all are Forest Memories. But among the many-twisted mass of them there is one, he said, that contains the separate buried root of the story: Man's Forest Faith. When the Spirit of the Forest had finished with the sea-shell, it had planted in him-there to grow ...
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Excerpt: ...of nature is modern, but it no more endows him with new feeling than modern knowledge of anatomy supplies him with a new bone or his latest knowledge about his blood furnishes him with an additional artery. Old are our instincts and passions about Nature: all are Forest Memories. But among the many-twisted mass of them there is one, he said, that contains the separate buried root of the story: Man's Forest Faith. When the Spirit of the Forest had finished with the sea-shell, it had planted in him-there to grow forever-the root of faith that he was a forest child. His origin in the sea he had not yet discovered; the science of ages far distant in the future was to give him that. To himself forest-tethered he was also forest-born: he believed it to be his immediate ancestor, the creative father of mankind. Thus the Greeks in their oldest faith were tethered to the idea that they were descended from the plane tree; in the Sagas and Eddas the human race is tethered to the world-ash. Among every people of antiquity this forest faith sprang up and flourished: every race was tethered to some ancestral tree. In the Orient each succeeding Buddha of Indian mythology was tethered to a different tree; each god of the later classical Pantheon was similarly tethered: Jupiter to the oak, Apollo to the laurel, Bacchus to the vine, Minerva to the olive, Juno to the apple, on and on. Forest worship was universal-the most impressive and bewildering to modern science that the human spirit has ever built up. At the dawn of history began The Adoration of the Trees. Then as man, the wanderer, walked away from his dawn across the ages toward the sunset bearing within him this root of faith, it grew with his growth. The successive growths were cut down by the successive scythes of time; but always new sprouts were put forth. Thus to man during the earliest ages the divine dwelt as a bodily presence within the forest; but one final day the forest lost the Immortal as...
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