an apt metaphor

The principal reproach that Hartmann makes against Schleiermacher's theory is religious alogism, the blindness and amorphousness of naked feeling.

On these occasions I often heard him declare that the whole of Europe did not contain ten thousand men, and that as for King George, he was only fit to be a dewan or zamindar under himself.

There's an aspect to each maple leaf and snowflake that remains from leaf to leaf and from snowflake to snowflake. It retains each leaf's maple-leafness and each snowflake's snowflakeness.