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of the Elysium which could alone justify him in creat- 

 ing us, it has proved ineffectual. Let us forget it. 



Curiously enough no man who has once learned to 

 understand science as poetry and as religion ever feels 

 like this. For in the search he discovers unexpected 

 prizes, undreamed-of emotional satisfactions, which 

 compensate him for any childish dreams he has to 

 give up. 



