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only a Newton, but a Shakespeare — not only a Boyle, 

 but a Kaphael — not only a Kant, but a Beethoven — not 

 only a Darwin, but a Carlyle. Not in each of these, but 

 in all, is human nature whole. They are not opposed, 

 but supplementary — not mutually exclusive, but reconcil- 

 able. And if, unsatisfied with them all, the human mind, 

 with the yearning of a pilgrim for his distant home, will 

 still turn to the Mystery from which it has emerged, seek- 

 ing so to fashion it as to give unity to thought and faith; 

 so long as this is done, not only without intolerance or 

 bigotry of any kind, but with the enlightened recognition 

 that ultimate fixity of conception is here unattainable, and 

 that each succeeding age must be held free to fashion 

 the mystery in accordance with its own needs — then, 

 casting aside all the restrictions of Materialism, I would 

 afiirm this to be a field for the noblest exercise of what, 

 in contrast with the knowing faculties, may be called the 

 creative faculties of man. Here, however, I touch a theme 

 too great for me to handle, but which will assuredly be 

 handled by the loftiest minds, when you and I, like 

 streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the 

 infinite azure of the past. 



