LEAF AND TENDRIL 



Down is toward the centre of the earth, but go on 

 through and come out at the surface on the other 

 side, and which way is down then? 



The Unspeakable will not be spoken. 



In the light of science we must see that life and 

 progress and evolution and the moral order must 

 go on and on somewhere, that the birth of systems 

 and the evolution of planets must and does con- 

 tinue, and always has continued; that if one sun 

 fades, another blazes out; that as there must have 

 been an infinite number (how can there be an in- 

 finite number? where is the end of the endless?) 

 of worlds in the past, so there will be an infinite 

 number in the future; that if the moral order and 

 the mathematical order and the intellectual order 

 disappear from one planet, they wiU appear in due 

 time on another. 



All that which in our limited view of nature we 

 call waste and delay — how can such terms apply 

 to the Infinite? Can we ever speak truly of the 

 Infinite in terms of the finite ? To be sure, we have 

 no other terms, and can never have. Then let us 

 be silent and — reverent. 



