... "The stones and the rocks have felt; the winds have been breath and
speech; the rivers and oceans of earth have been locked into chambers of
hearts. And the palingenesis cannot cease till every cosmic particle
shall have passed through the uttermost possible experience of the
highest possible life."
"But what of the planetary core?--has that, too, felt and thought?"
"Even so surely as that all flesh has been sun-fire! In the ceaseless
succession of integrations and dissolutions, all things have shifted
relation and place numberless billions of times. Hearts of old moons
will make the surface of future worlds...."