Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.... It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man,--that is, an instructor of man.... He teaches us how to become like God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate between ...them. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »