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through which they can pass, and have discussed 

 other points of a like kind. But all these questions 

 are foreclosed by my statement that they are not 

 accidental fires, but inwoven in the texture of the 

 universe, directed by it in secret, but not often 

 revealed. And how many bodies besides revolve 3 

 in secret, never dawning upon human eyes? Nor 

 is it for man that God has made all things. 1 How 

 small a portion of His mighty work is entrusted 

 to us ? But He who directs them all, who estab 

 lished and laid the foundations of all this world, 

 who has clothed Himself with creation, and is the 

 greater and better part of His work, He is hidden 

 from our eyes, He can be perceived only by 

 thought. 



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MANY things, moreover, akin to highest deity or i 

 holding power near it, are still obscure. Or, perhaps, 

 one may be still more surprised to find that they 

 at once fill and elude our sight. Either their 

 subtlety is too great for human vision to grasp, 

 or such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holier 

 sanctuary, and rules its kingdom, which is itself, 

 without permitting access to any power except the 

 spirit. What that is, without which nothing is, we 

 cannot know : and when God, the greatest part of the 

 universe, is an unknown God, we are surprised, are we, 

 that there are some specks of fire we do not fully 

 understand ? How many animals we have come to 2 

 know for the first time in our own days ! Many, 

 too, that are unknown to us, the people of a coming 

 day will know. Many discoveries are reserved for 



1 Another reading runs : Nor has God revealed all things to man. 



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