PREFACE 



worked out the problem; and now I find myself 

 possessed of a faith the chief beauty and value 

 of which to my mind lies in the fact that it 

 brings religion and science into harmony. 



It is no longer " wicked " to ask questions and 

 to seek the truth. The more you ask the more 

 truth you find. 



There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 

 There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 

 There is society where none intrudes 

 By the deep sea, and music in its roar; 

 I love not man the less, but Nature more 

 From these our interviews, in which I steal 

 From all I may be or have been before, 

 To mingle with the universe and feel 

 What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 



BYBON. 



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