CHAP. IX.] GLENLAIR, 1857, MT. 26. 273 



one other book of French argument on the positive (not 

 positiviste) side, and that also worked by " demonstration." 

 My notion is, that reason, taste, and conscience are the judges 

 of all knowledge, pleasure, and action, and that they are the 

 exponents not of a code, but of the unwritten law, which 

 they reveal as they judge by it in presence of the facts. The 

 facts must be witnessed to 'by the senses, and cross-examined 

 by the intellect, and not unless everything is properly put 

 on record and proved as fact, will any question of law be 

 resolved at headquarters. 



We are only going through our Lehrjahr in the know- 

 ledge of Perfection, and we may have a Wanderjahr to com- 

 plete even after getting the first diploma, which is a 

 certificate of having eyes to see the work, a conscience to 

 feel after Eight, and faith to believe in the Word, and to reach 

 a station thereby where both those eyes and that conscience 

 may be satisfied, or at least appeased. I do not think it is 

 doing Eeason, etc. any injustice to say that rough dead facts 

 are the necessary basis on which to work in order to elicit 

 the living truth, not from the facts, but either from the 

 utterer of facts or the giver of Eeason, which two are one, or 

 Eeason would never decipher facts. 



For know, whatever was created needs 

 To be sustained and fed. Of elements 

 The grosser feeds the purer, etc. 



various degrees 



Of substance, and in things that live, of life 



Meanwhile enjoy 



Your fill what happiness this happy state 

 Can comprehend, incapable of more. 



