60 PROGEESS : ITS LAW AND CAUSE. 



that the Materialist and Spiritualist controversy is a mere 

 war of words ; the disputants being equally absurd — each 

 believing he understands that which it is impossible for 

 any man to understand. In all directions his investigations 

 eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable ; 

 and he ever more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. 

 He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human 

 intellect — its power in dealing with all that comes within 

 the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all 

 that transcends exjDerience. He feels, with a vividness 

 which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of 

 the simplest fact, considered in itself. He alone truly 

 sees that absolute knowledge is impossible. He alone 

 knows that under all things there lies an impenetrable 

 mystery. 



