To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Let us begin with that which is without- our physical life. What is the whole physical life in that moment but a combination of natural elements to which science gives their names?
That clear, perhaps outline of face and limb is but an image of ours, under which we group them- a desigh in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it. This is the flame-like quality out life has, that it is but the concurrence, renewed from moment to moment, of course parting sooner or later on their ways.