70 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



" if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, 

 wouldest thou not have done it ? how much rather, 

 then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean ? " 

 The leprosy of the miraculous which taints men's 

 minds is to be got rid of in the same way : wash 

 and be clean in the current of the sweet-flowing 

 nature that is always near at hand, and that is 

 always and everywhere the same. 



