BEGINNING THE TUITION 8 



meditated on my experience. The fact was evident : 

 the dog had understood me I had seen it in her eyes. 

 She had reflected first and had then tapped the palm 

 of my hand with unwavering certainty. I had seen 

 the process and had felt it. Now, it is not wise to be 

 guided by one's feelings alone our judgment should 

 be unbiased, and so I decided to test these facts 

 according to reason and in every conceivable way. 

 Yet, no one having once experienced what I had, could 

 ever forget the sensation, for it was like the dawning 

 of some great truth, rising suddenly before one's 

 eyes clear and immense. It appeared to me as some 

 beautiful gift of life, and I was seized with a feeling of 

 reverence for all that may yet lie undiscovered. For 

 this new light of which I had caught the first flash, as 

 though reflected in some bright crystal such as I 

 might hold in my hand how I yearned to transmit 

 it to pass this gift this joy on to others as soon 

 as the veil should have further lifted and the horizon 

 have become wider. And, before passing on again to 

 the practical and scientific side of these investigations, 

 I should like to say that where we have to do with 

 warm, pulsating life, feeling too has its rights, and 

 must go hand-in-hand with reason. For it is feeling, 

 love and patience that must first penetrate the subject- 

 matter, while to reason is assigned the studying, the 

 weighing and the proving along tjhe path pursued by 

 the creative, seeking spirit of man. Such is man : 

 how humble by comparison is the animal ! Yet 

 should our love henceforth assign to it its own place 

 as well as its own rights as our lowlier companion in 

 the work of life. 



Soon I ventured beyond ten. For lack of any more 

 fingers I got a counting frame, such as small children 

 use at school, and the red and white wire-strung balls 



