LECTURE XII. 



INEXPLICABLE is the nature of Beauty. Only in the 

 Feeling does the susceptible soul become conscious of it ; 

 and to the logically arranging, scientifically connecting, and 

 theoretically deducing Understanding, it remains ever a 

 foreign, closed territory, 



" Where all the Wisdom of the wise man leaves him blind, 

 There plays in free Simplicity the child-like mind." 



When with our observations and experiments, with analyses, 

 conclusions and proofs, we have unravelled Nature into a 

 plain, intelligible tissue of substances and forces, Beauty and 

 Sublimity enter upon the field, unite the disjointed 'once 

 more into a single Whole, and rnock our endeavours to 

 comprehend the eternally Incomprehensible. We explain 

 it not, yet it is true ; we comprehend it not, yet there it is. 

 The pure heart speaks out unhesitatingly what the acutest 

 intellect never finds : 



" The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the 

 firmament showeth his handywork. One day telleth 

 another : and one night certifieth another." 



