Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. (Henry Fuseli)

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Henry Fuseli

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