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for their translation into light does not exist. And so 

 from this region of darkness and mystery which sur- 

 rounds us, rays may now be darting which require but 

 the development of the proper intellectual organs to 

 translate them into knowledge as far surpassing ours as 

 ours does that of the wallowing reptiles which once 

 held possession of this planet. Meanwhile the mystery 

 is not without its uses. It certainly may be made a 

 power in the human soul ; but it is a power which has 

 feeling, not knowledge, for its base. It may be, and 

 will be, and we hope is turned to account, both in steady- 

 ing and strengthening the intellect, and in rescuing man 

 from that littleness to which, in the struggle for exist- 

 ence or for precedence in the world, he is continually 

 prone. 



