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another within the ken of all men, there are facts of 

 plain experience which will not really fit, unmuti- 

 lated, undisfigured, into any scheme or view of life 

 that leaves God out of sight. They are facts, it may 

 be, of which a full account can hardly, if at all, be 

 given. They are fragmentary, isolated, imponder- 

 able ; clearer at one time than at another ; largely 

 dependent, for anything like due recognition, upon 

 the individual mind, and heart, and will. Yet there 

 they are, flashing out at times with an intensity 

 which makes all else seem pale and cold ; disclosing, 

 or ready to disclose, to any quietness of thought, 

 great hints of worlds unrealised and possibilities of 

 overwhelming glory. 



And it is on loyalty, on justice to such fragments 

 of truth, unaccounted for and unarranged, that for 

 many men the trial of faith may turn. All is not 

 lost, and everything is possible, so long as the mind 

 refuses to doubt the reality of the light that has 

 come, perhaps, as yet only in broken rays. Of such 

 justice and loyalty George Romanes set a very high 

 example. The strength and simplicity and patience 

 of his character appeared in nothing else more re- 

 markably, more happily, than in his undiscouraged 

 grasp of those unseen realities which invade this world 

 in the name and power of the world to come. The 

 love of precision and completeness never dulled his care 

 for the things that he could neither define, nor label, 

 nor arrange ; in their fragmentariness he treasured 

 them, in their reserve he trusted them, waiting faith- 

 fully to see what they might have to show him. And 

 they did not fail him. This is not the place in which 



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