Reflections in Goethe's Elective Affinities by IDRIS PARRY Professor of Modern German Literature University of Manchester
' To seek the footpath on the water Is a great presumption, but a necessary one. We are observers of miracles. When we know that miracles are only the commonplace connections of nature which are as yet beyond our comprehension, we shall no longer be observers but participators, taking the natural and fluid path of transformation. The miracle, like art, is the echo which comes to us in advance of the event.'
