CHAPTER XV.
DIAGRAM XII.—THE CHORDS OF THE TWELVE MINOR KEYS.
"No development can help anything which does not have corrective causes working with it; some power must shape the growth, and work correctively by laws impressed and authority maintained. The law of progress must be operated upon and moulded by guiding forces. That which acts, lives; and the universe lives as much by its soul as we do by ours."
"And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic harps diversely formed,
That tremble into thought as o'er them sweeps,
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
"In all things, in all natures, in the stars
Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds,
In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone
That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks,
The moving waters, and the invisible air,
. . . . From link to link
It circulates, the soul of all the worlds."—Coleridge.
[Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Diagram XII - The Chords of the Twelve Minor Keys, page 37a]
"Adore with steadfast unpresuming gaze,
Him, Nature's essence, mind, and energy." Coleridge. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme2, page 44]
"The owlet Atheism,
Sailing on obscure wings across the noon,
Drops his blue fringed lids and shuts them close,
And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven,
Cries out, Where is it?" [Coleridge]. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme4, page 46]