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claim sympathy and friendship with those who, 

 Hke themselves, have turned away from the more 

 material struggles of human life, and have set 

 their hearts and minds on the knowledge of the 

 Eternal"? 



Have we told the story so as to make plain that 

 to the healthy-minded the world is as full of 

 wonder now as it was in the ancient days when 

 Job marvelled at the coming and going of Maz- 

 zaroth and the sons of Arcturus ? Have we made 

 it plain that even when physical science succeeds 

 in reducing a whole order of facts to a common 

 denominator, it cannot explain its nature or origin ? 

 That even when biological science discerns great 

 chains of sequence, it remains unaware of what 

 life really is; and that even when science, as a 

 whole, traces out for its own purposes a network 

 of mechanism embracing all, *'no sane man has 

 ever pretended, since science became a definite 

 body of doctrine, that we know or ever can hope 

 to know or conceive of the possibility of knowing, 

 whence this mechanism has come, why it is there, 

 whither it is going, and what may or may not be 

 beyond and beside it which our senses are incap- 

 able of appreciating. These things are not 'ex- 

 plained ' by science, and never can be " ? These are 

 things of the spirit, and must be spiritually dis- 

 cerned. 



If we have succeeded in some measure with our 



