"To California 



winds came from, nor where they were going. 

 And now in this Golden Age, though we Gen- 

 tiles know the birthplace of many a wind and 

 also "whither it is going," yet we know about 

 as little of winds in general as those Palestinian 

 Jews, and our ignorance, despite the powers of 

 science, can never be much less profound than 

 it is at present. 



The substance of the winds is too thin for 

 human eyes, their written language is too diffi- 

 cult for human minds, and their spoken lan- 

 guage mostly too faint for the ears. A mechan- 

 ism is said to have been invented whereby the 

 human organs of speech are made to write 

 their own utterances. But without any extra 

 mechanical contrivance, every speaker also 

 writes as he speaks. All things in the creation 

 of God register their own acts. The poet was 

 mistaken when he said, " From the wing no scar 

 the sky sustains.'' His eyes were simply too 

 dim to see the scar. In sailing past Cuba I 

 could see a fringe of foam along the coast, but 

 could hear no sound of waves, simply because 

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