52 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



and as the eye of the understanding grows more 

 piercing, the veil is seen through, and the truth 

 stands revealed." Nature is the great Parable ; and 

 the truths which she holds within her are veiled, 

 but not dismembered. The pretended separation 

 between that which lies within Nature and that 

 which lies beyond Nature is a dismemberment of 

 the truth. Let both those who find it difficult to 

 believe in anything which is " above " the Natural, 

 and those who insist on that belief, first determine 

 how far the Natural extends. Perhaps in going 

 round these marches they will find themselves 

 meeting upon common ground. For, indeed, long 

 before we have searched out all that the Natural 

 includes, there will remain little in the so-called 

 Supernatural which can seem hard of acceptance 

 or belief — nothing which is not rather essential 

 to our understanding of this otherwise " unintel- 

 ligible world," 



