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The Fallacy of Ascribing to Nature
Shakespeare has always used that, but I think it changes as attitudes to nature change. There's a set of correspondences between the different dimensions of reality. Once you get after the scientific revolution, once you get into the Enlightenment, 18th century, 19th century, people don't really believe that anymore. That's the point at which putting feelings into nature really does become a fallacy because we know that nature is simply a mechanism and doesn't actually have feelings.