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the photosphere of the sun and even of the fixed stars 

 making electric wires, with a speed that mocks cal- 

 culation, the medium of human intercourse across the 

 widest oceans these capacities, thus developed and 

 exalted in their objects, point at some spirituality of 

 nature which mere matter, in our understanding of it, 

 can never reach. That we are unable to comprehend 

 this nature, and its complex relations to the material 

 world, is but one of the many similar confessions we 

 are compelled to make when seeking to interpret the 

 mysteries around us. 



