There are those who see a great mystery in the presence of eternal values in a moving and animal world, and think to solve that dualism, as they call it, by denying that nature can have spiritual functions and spirit a natural cause; but nothing can be simpler if we make, as we should, existence the test of possibility. Ab esse ad posse valet illatio. Nature is a perfect garden of ideals, and passion is the perpetual and fertile soil for poetry, myth, and speculation.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There are those who see a great mystery in the presence of eternal values in a moving and animal world, and think to solve that dualism, as they call it, by denying that nature can have spiritual functions and spirit a natural cause; but nothing can be simpler if we make, as we should, existence the test of possibility. Ab esse ad posse valet illatio. Nature is a perfect garden of ideals, and passion is the perpetual and fertile soil for poetry, myth, and speculation." in the context of "George Santayana, (1920), The Life of Reason: or the Phases of Human Progress: Volume I. Introduction, and Reason in Common Sense, page: 282, publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (1st edition 1905 in The Life of Reason published in 5 volumes from 1905 to 1906)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.