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speare not only a Boyle, but a Raphael not only a 

 Kant, but a Beethoven not only a Darwin, but a 

 Carlyle. Not in each of these, but in all, is human 

 nature whole. They are not opposed, but supplemen- 

 tary not mutually exclusive, but reconcilable. And 

 if, unsatisfied with them all, the human mind, with 

 the yearning of a pilgrim for his distant home, will 

 still turn to the Mystery from which it has emerged, 

 seeking so to fashion it as to give unity to thought and 

 faith ; so long as this is done, not only without intole- 

 rance or bigotry of any kind, but with the enlightened 

 recognition that ultimate fixity of conception is here 

 unattainable, and that each succeeding age must be 

 held free to fashion the mystery in accordance with 

 its own needs then, casting aside all the restrictions 

 of Materialism, I would affirm this to be a field for the 

 noblest exercise of what, in contrast with the knowing 

 faculties, may be called the creative faculties of man. 

 Here, however, I touch a theme too great for me to 

 handle, but which will assuredly be handled by the 

 loftiest minds, when you and I, like streaks of morn- 

 ing cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of 

 the past. 



