ANALOGY — TKUE AND FALSE 37 



only real analogy that exists in the case is between 

 the darkness and the daylight of the world within 

 and the darkness and the daylight of the world 

 without. Science, or knowledge, is light ; ignorance 

 is darkness ; there are no other symbols that so fully 

 and exactly express these things. The mind sees, 

 science lets in the light, and the darkness flees. 



If there is anything in our inward life and expe- 

 rience that corresponds or is analogous to the night 

 with its stars, it is to be found in that withdrawal 

 from the noise and bustle of the world into the 

 atmosphere of secluded contemplation. If there 

 are any stars in your firmament, you will find them 

 then. But, after all, how far the stars of religion 

 and philosophy are subjective, or of our own crea- 

 tion, is always a question. 



I recently met with the same fallacy in a leading 

 article in one of the magazines. " The fact revealed 

 by the spectroscope," says the writer, " that the 

 physical elements of the earth exist also in the stars, 

 supports the faith that a moral nature like our own 

 inhabits the universe." A tremendous leap — a 

 leap from the physical to the moral. We know 

 that these earth elements are found in the stars by 

 actual observation and experience. We see them as 

 truly as we see the stars themselves ; but a moral 

 nature like our own — this is assumed and is not 

 supported at all by analogy. The only legitimate 

 inference from the analogy is, that as our sun has 

 planets and that these planets, or one of them at 

 least, is the abode of life, so these other suns in 



