Hippolyte Taine,
Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise…
“ The thing visible, nay the thing imagined, the thing in any way conceived as visible, what is it but a garment, a clothing of the higher, celestial invisible "unimaginable, formless, dark with excess of bright?"All visible things are emblems; what thou seest is not there on its own account; strictly taken, is not there at all: Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth. ”
