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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.