i 9 2 LIGHT, MORE LIGHT. 



and the other spheres composing what we call the Solar 

 System. 



Permit us here a parenthesis, or, shall we say, a digression ? 



The whole secret of science, the whole secret of human 

 knowledge in truth, the whole future of humanity lies in 

 these two words Enlightened Thought. 



And here, gentle reader, I solicit your assistance in endea- 

 vouring to elucidate a question which has a for a long time 

 puzzled me. Why do we apply the word "light" to that 

 which sets in motion the eye of the body, and to that which 

 induces the operation of the eye of the mind, to the sin- 

 gularly mysterious physical agent without whose intervention 

 all the external world would be to man a dream or a void, 

 as well as to the still more mysterious moral agent which 

 illuminates the world within ? 



I anticipate your answer. "The light," you say, "which 

 opens up to me the material world is a reality ; the other is 

 only an image." 



And it is true that this is the solution which first presents 

 itself to the mind. But the longer you reflect upon it, the 

 more you will be inclined to agree with me that it is unsatis- 

 factory. What, then, means this agreement among all peoples, 

 past and present, to designate by the same words as 



Light To illuminate 



Obscurity To obscure 



Shadow To overshadow 



Morning To darken 



