How does the genius make itself known? In the way that in nature
Shows the Creator himself,—e’en in the infinite whole.
Clear is the ether, and yet of depth that ne’er can be fathomed;
Seen by the eye, it remains evermore closed to the sense.
(Friedrich von Schiller)
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