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-elusions in that human experience which the sources 

 of our knowledge cannot transcend; may well let the 

 matter rest. It need not concern itself with denials 

 that dreams have been sent as warnings from Heaven 

 to man; this were as foolish as to take pains to dis- 

 prove the existence of ghosts, or to seriously challenge 

 the predictions in Zadkiel's Vox Stcllarum. Science 

 need not argue; it explains; and to such matters 

 explanation is death. For the changes which reve- 

 lation of the order of nature and the establishment of 

 that doctrine of continuity, which has no " favoured- 

 nation " clause for man, involve, will bring about, in 

 quiet and unmourned, the departure of belief in 

 dreams as omens or warnings, just as they have 

 brought about the decay of belief in witchcraft and 

 .astrology. 



HONEY ANTS. 



BY GRANT ALLEN. 



THE Garden of the Gods in Colorado is a bit of show- 

 scenery of the true American type a green amphi- 

 theatre, studded with vast ledges and cliffs of red 

 sandstone, weathered here and there into chimneys or 

 pillars, in which a distorted fancy traces some vague 

 resemblance to the sculptured forms of the Hellenic 

 gods. Hither, a few years since, Dr. McCook, of 

 Philadelphia, went on his way to New Mexico, where 

 he wished to study the habits and manners of a 



