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of the imagination and the cultivation of the higher reasoning 

 faculties. This insight will reveal the meaning of all these 

 phenomena, and the oneness underlying all things will become 

 apparent. To cleanse the eye from seeing only the grosser 

 phenomena, and to gain the perfect faultless eye of wisdom, 

 compensated Kunala, the king's son, for the loss of his eye, 

 which, by a cruel order, was torn from its socket. 



The more apparent phenomena of a science have their 

 true place when studied in harmony with the bold outlines 

 of the universe. Call these outlines philosophical principles, 

 cosmic laws, or what you will, but the facts of science, culled 

 from many fields, only confirm the words of long ago: "Our 

 whole existence depends on our thought; thought is its noblest 

 factor; in thought its state consists." 



Chemical facts, or the facts of any science when regarded, 

 not as the end of endeavor, but as the means to an end, take 

 their true place in the intellectual universe. 



The facts of a science being more or less relative, in the 

 search of truth these relative facts are useful, inasmuch as 

 they indicate the principle which underlies the manifestations. 



The ceaseless change and interchange; the impermanence 

 of all things in nature, whether pertaining to the so-called 

 inorganic or organic life phenomena, is expressed by the mu- 

 tations and transformations of chemical reaction. 



The recurrent properties and the chemical laws, exhibited 

 in all syntheses, as well as in breaking-down processes of com- 

 pounds, are in unison with the rhythmic system of evolution 

 from which nothing in this universe can escape. 



