What is the meaning of this sentence: "As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it."
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Are you sure you have given the sentence correctly? The last part of it is grammatically wrong. So I cannot tell you what it means.
— Doctor D
Are you sure you have given the sentence correctly?
The last part of it is grammatically wrong.
So I cannot tell you what it means.
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I think it is grammatical apart from a slight quibble about the use of "so much", which doesn't seem exactly right to my modern eyes but which possibly was normal in the author's day.
so it is = so the world is plastic and fluid ever = always to so much of his attributes as we bring to it = to whatever ***-given attributes we bring to the world