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run. So four times in the year the clock and 

 the sun are together in their race. From the 

 middle of April until the middle of June the 

 sun is ahead; then he drops back of the 

 clock until, startled, he recovers himself and 

 in September again drives ahead. But the 

 spurt does not last and the steady, unemo- 

 tional clock leads from late December until 

 the April meeting comes once more. 



The truth is, the unvarying regularity of 

 Nature's laws does not produce the dead 

 uniformity of our mechanical creations. 

 She allows so many laws to act at once in 

 the same matter that there results a divine 

 unevenness, underlaid by an all-pervading 

 rhythm, that is never monotonous, yet al- 

 ways accountable when once we know the 

 forces that are at work. 



And, by the way, it is only a part of our 

 general egotism to lay all this seeming ir- 

 regularity at the door of the sun. Of 

 course it is our own old earth that is to 

 blame. If she travelled in a circle, time 

 would be evenly divided. But her circle is 

 flattened and the sun is nearer one end. She 



