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For it is the privilege of the man of genius who 

 loves truth as Tyndall did who was willing to 

 break up every fetter of dogma rather than be a 

 traitor to his conception of truth to unconsciously 

 intuit the truth that he seeks, so that his words 

 give out a higher meaning than he dreamed of. 

 Tyndall was wise in recommending what he called 

 the scientific flight of the imagination, for that 

 power of imagination is a most useful thing. Never 

 clip the wings of your imagination when you are 

 employed in your scientific work ; for it may 

 often give you glimpses of truths that without its 

 aid you would never find. Thus the Devas work 

 and build crystals, and those crystals have some 

 remarkable properties. Professor Japp tells us that 

 some crystals turn a polarised beam of light in a 

 particular way ; and he declares that in some of 

 these forms there is a power which is directive and 

 somewhat akin to the intelligence of man. Truly 

 is it akin to human intelligence, inasmuch as it is the 

 parent of human intelligence, the latter being the 

 child that is developing the parental powers. This 

 building goes on through stages on which we must 

 not tarry, through the whole of the mineral world, 

 gradually giving to matter the power to change shape 

 between larger and larger limits without losing cohe- 

 sion. This is what is called plasticity, the power of 



