274 LORD GRIMTHORPE ON THE BEAUTY OF NATURE. 
fountain of beauty leads us by scientific consequence farther than 
habit and fashion : as far as the sun—farther than that, as far as the 
stars—farther than that, as far as the all-surrounding ether. But for 
ether to give light it must be moved. In any substance, motion 
is not a somewhat evolved in it, but a somewhat imparted to it. 
Motion, vibration in ether is the last physical fact to which we are 
conducted by light, the exclusive source of physical beauty. That 
fact compels us to think of a Mover and that Mover must be 
One whose touch can simultaneously thrill the substance en- 
compassing all worlds, and pervading their inmost recesses. 
