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phenomena we see around us, as is the other factor 

 that they shall normally be on too small a scale for 

 us to find it out. Creations, then, there must be, but 

 they must be so small that practically they are no 

 creations. We must have a continuity in discon- 

 tinuity, and a discontinuity in continuity; that is 

 to say, we can only conceive the idea of change at all 

 by the help of flat contradiction in terms. It comes, 

 therefore, to this, that if we are to think fluently and 

 harmoniously upon any subject into which change 

 enters (and there is no conceivable subject into which 

 it does not), we must begin by flying in the face 

 of every rule that professors of the art of thinking 

 have drawn up for our instruction. These rules may 

 be good enough as servants, but we have let them be- 

 come the worst of masters, forgetting that philosophy 

 is made for man, not man for philosophy. Logic has 

 been the true Tower of Babel, which we have thought 

 to build so that we might climb up into the heavens, 

 and have no more miracle, but see God and live — nor 

 has confusion of tongues failed to follow on our 

 presumption. Truly St. Paul said well that the just 

 shall live by faith ; and the question " By what faith ? " 

 is a detail of minor moment, for there are as many 

 faiths as species, whether of plants or animals, and 

 each of them is in its own way both Uviag and saving. 

 All, then, whether fusion or diffusion, whether of 

 ideas or things, is miraculous. It is the two in one, 

 and at the same time one in two, which is only two 

 and two making five put before us in another shape ; 

 yet this fusion — so easy to think so long as it is not 



