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Here are two or three of them : " In your inmost 

 soul you are as well suited to the whole cosmical 

 order and every part of it as to your own body. You 

 belong here. Did you suppose that you belonged to 

 some other world than this, or that you belonged 

 nowhere at all, just a waif on the bosom of the eter- 

 nities ? . . . Conceivably He might have flung you 

 into a world that was unrelated to you, and might 

 have left you to be acclimated at your own risk; 

 but you happen to know that this is not the case. 

 You have lived here always; this is the ancestral 

 demesne; for ages and ages you have looked out of 

 these same windows upon the celestial landscape 

 and the star-deeps. You are at home." " How per- 

 verse and pathetic the desires of the animals! But 

 they all get what they ask for, long necks and 

 trunks, flapping ears and branching horns and cor- 

 rugated hides, anything, if only they will believe in 

 life and try." 1 



The intuitional and affirmative writers, to which 

 class our new author belongs, and the most notable 

 example of which, in this country, was Emerson, 

 are, as a rule, more suggestive than the clearly de- 

 monstrating and logical writers. A challenge to the 

 soul seems to mean more than an appeal to the 

 reason; an audacious affirmation often irradiates 

 the mind in a way that a logical sequence of thought 

 does not. Science rarely suggests more than it says; 



1 The Religion of Democracy. By Charles Ferguson. 



