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imagine that in the imagination of the Almighty 

 we all come into being. " In the beginning was 

 the Word^' says the old Chaldaean cosmogony ; 

 but "In the Beginning was the Thought''' might 

 be truer still. As some German poet sings : 



" Die Rose die allhier dem irdisch Auge siehet 

 Die hat von Anbeginn in Gott also gebluhet." 



The emotion Beauty is produced by certain lines 

 and colours, and never do we seem more in 

 sympathy with the Divine Mind than when it 

 moves us. Beauty is perhaps a Final Cause of 

 organic Evolution, and Watson has perhaps reached 

 higher truths than Darwin when he sings : — 



" Beauty the Vision whereunto 

 In joy, with pantings, from afar 

 Thro' sound and odour, form and hue, 

 And mind and clay, and worm and star. 

 Now touching goal, now backward hurled, 

 Toils the indomitable world." 



