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of their riddle ; or peering with countless eyes the dim 

 vistas of the eternal, through which its outstretched 

 limbs and fading lights extend in a vain attempt to 

 see and understand itself ; or listening with countless 

 ears to the hushed voices of the void, whispering to 

 each other in broken chords and unknown tongues that 

 which they think and feel they really are. Existence 

 has thus ever been from eternity but a struggle to see 

 itself; and its intelligence — through matter as well as 

 man — solely an endeavour to realise in itself and 

 through itself what itself really is. 



THE END. 



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