Venery by reason of the wind

[cathy ramirez]

Roberrt, 

 I think Mason has had, or thinks he has had, a
> revelation. He has become
> a "Deist", wherein his "Bible is Nature" (772). He
> was never a "Deist"
> before this, though Dixon's beliefs may have tended
> that way. 

OHHHHH, you are correct. A death bed conversion. What
do you know. Dixon has tended toward bible is nature
and is quite open to integrating other belief systems
but this is not really at odds with his Quakerism.
Although I uderstand your point now. Recall the
discussion with the "Indians" about the
heaven/spiritual village. Dixon insisting that God
dwells in all of nature or the entire universe while
Mason, unsure, only points to the stars.  




Looking into
> the heavens after Herschel's "discovery" of Uranus
> Mason had seen a
> prophecy, "fore-inklings of the dark Forces of
> Over-Throw", part of which
> was his own personal mortality and part of which was
> the future of humanity
> (the Terror and despotism which came after the
> French Revolution, the
> American Civil War, the two WWs as well perhaps, to
> the present day). I
> think the long paragraph on p. 769 is very
> important, as is the middle
> paragraph on p. 771, Chas's hypnagogic vision, which
> seems to imply a
> continuity in human history, and brutality, from
> ancient times.

I'll have a look see. 

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