5' 90 



LocKE has two sentences which, with little altera- 

 tion, express in the best possible manner what I 

 would write upon this occasion. 



Nature, he says, commonly lodges her treasure 

 and jewels in rocky ground. If the matter be knotty, 

 and the sense lies deep, the mind must stop and buckle 

 to it, and stick upon it with labour and thought, and 

 close contemplation, and not leave it until it has mas- 

 tered the difficulty and got possession of truth. And 

 again — 



God has made the organic world harmonious and 

 ; beautiful without us ; but it will never come into our 

 .# heads all at once ; we must bring it home piece-meal, 

 and then set it up by our own industry, or else we 

 shall have nothing but darkness and a chaos within, 

 whatever order and light there be in things without 

 us. 



The reader will, I am sure, forgive me if I intro- 

 duce the second volume of this little work without 

 further preface. 



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