Note 222 — Chapter VIII · ROMANTICISM AND NATURE
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Grant Allen writes of the laws of nature in Magdalen Tower:
They care not any whit for pain or pleasure, That seems to us the sum and end of all, Dumb force and barren number are their measure, What shall be shall be, tho’ the great earth fall, They take no heed of man or man’s deserving, Reck not what happy lives they make or mar, Work out their fatal will unswerv’d, unswerving, And know not that they are!