PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 113

man draws from the mystery of the world,according to Novalis,of the whole universe that he bears within himself.Therefore with this prejudice,indulging in the tripod of poetry,nature study and philosophy.Hence that form a sythesis,as they sat in their serene hours,both philosophising and dashing off inspired verses and similarly bent on nature study.They massively investigated nature given their belief that nature is not a dead mechanism but an absolute spirit.When Norwegian born naturalist Henrik Stephens who was called Norways'departed laurel leaf'by Wergeland because he settled in Germany went to Copenhagen,he was driven by the absolute spirit to lecture his audience on Romanticism.He reechoed Novalis when he said" Tired of the eternal efforts to light our waythrough raw matter,we choseanother way........"that is they sought embrace infinite by reachinginside ourselves to create a newworld.It was Schelling who saw development from nature earth and rock to the humanmind.This included the slow transition