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disciples, rather than an unquestioning 

 acceptance of everything that he writes. 

 Moreover, may I not as a Spencerian pupil 

 safely say that it is too early to claim more, 

 for much of Mr. Spencer s philosophy, than 

 that it is a good, an admirable working 

 hypothesis, but still an hypothesis ? For 

 myself, I may say that it is the grandest 

 that ever opened before my vision, and that 

 it tills my mind and heart with an awe and 

 a reverence for the all-comprehending, all- 

 inspiring mystic essence which is at the 

 heart of things, which are unspeakable. 

 But it is this incomprehensible mystery, 



A motion and a spirit, that impels 



All thinking things, all objects of all thought, 



And rolls through all things, 



that is the final incontrovertible fact, not 

 anything hitherto formulated regarding it. 



SEPTEMBER 2, 1894, 



