Fabre's Writings 



We have said enough to show that Fabre 

 is decidedly of the race of those great men 

 who soar high above the vulgar prejudices, 

 pedantries, and weaknesses, and whose won- 

 derful discoveries bring them nearer to God 

 as they uplift them above the common level 

 of humanity. 



Having written The Harmony of the 

 World, and casting a final glance at the 

 charts of the heavens and also at the long 

 labour of his life, Kepler offered his God 

 this homage : 



O Thou, who by the light of Nature hast caused 

 us to sigh after the light of grace, in order to reveal 

 unto us the light of Thy glory, I thank Thee, my 

 Creator and my God, that Thou hast permitted me 

 to admire and to love Thy works. I have now fin- 

 ished the work of my life with the strength of the 

 understanding which Thou hast vouchsafed me; I 



explanation not below but above it, and of all the mar- 

 vels created that compel us to look upward and pro- 

 claim the Supreme Intelligence whence they are de- 

 rived, this is one of the most striking and persuasive: 

 " The more I see, the more I observe, the more this In- 

 telligence shines forth behind the mystery of things." 



Fabre thus joins hands with Pasteur, and may fitly 

 be mentioned in the same breath with him, as one of the 

 most distinguished defenders of spiritual science and 

 belief against materialistic science and atheism. This 

 is all the more remarkable in that Fabre has never 

 attempted to make any apologia, but simply stated 

 whither all his observations and reflections tended. 



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