Art and Science 



to me, with greater force, that thought, though 

 infinitely aided, extended and rendered definite 

 through the invention of words, nevertheless 

 existed so fully as to deserve no other name 

 thousands, if not millions of years before 

 words had entered into it at all. Words, 

 they say, are a comparatively recent inven- 

 tion, for the fuller expression of something 

 that was already in existence. 



Children, they urge, are often evidently 

 thinking and reasoning, though they can 

 neither think nor speak in words. If you 

 ask me to define reason, I answer as before 

 that this can no more be done than thought, 

 truth or motion can be defined. Who has 

 answered the question, " What is truth ? " 

 Man cannot see God and live. We cannot 

 go so far back upon ourselves as to under- 

 mine our own foundations ; if we try to do 

 so we topple over, and lose that very reason 

 about which we vainly try to reason. If we 

 let the foundations be, we know well enough 

 that they are there, and we can build upon 

 them in all security. We cannot, then, define 



reason nor crib, cabin and confine it within a 



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