286 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



Three things, he says, were found twelve 

 thousand years ago by prehistoric man: the 

 existence of the soul, immortality, the Deity. 

 Since then, nothing further has been found. 

 Well, he would find something more. What 

 is it he would find ? It can only be discovered 

 by one who has that fulness of the soul for 

 which he prays. 



"As I write these words, in the very 

 moment, I feel that the whole air, the sun- 

 shine out yonder lighting up the ploughed 

 earth, the distant sky, the circumambient 

 ether, and that far space, is full of soul- 

 secrets, soul-life, things outside the experi- 

 ence of all the ages. The fact of iny own 

 existence as I write, as I exist at this second, 

 is so marvellous, so miracle-like, strange, and 

 supernatural to me, that I unhesitatingly con- 

 clude I am always on the margin of life 

 illimitable, and that there are higher condi- 

 tions than existence. Everything around is 

 supernatural ; everything so full of unex- 

 plained meaning/' 



It is only by the soul that one lives. As 



