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phenomena of physics to those of thought, 

 we meet a problem which transcends any 

 conceivable expansion of the powers which 

 we now possess. We stand at length face 

 to face with the Incomprehensible. The 

 territory of physics is wide, but it has its 

 limits, from which we look with vacant 

 gaze into the region beyond. Whence come 

 we ? whither go we ? The question dies 

 without an answer without even an echo 

 upon the infinite shores of the Unknown " 

 (p. 72). _ 



I believe the distinguished and fair- 

 dealing author of the above words to be 

 mistaken in declaring that the important 

 questions, " Whence come we?" and 

 " Whither go we?" die without an answer 

 or an echo. At least, some great men of 

 different ages have thought otherwise. If 

 the author of Hamlet once declared, " We 

 know what we are ; but know not what we 

 may be," John Sterling, as related by his 

 biographer, Thomas Carlyle, makes this 

 reply " I affirm we do know whence we 

 come, and whither we go;" as John Wesley 



