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tout se crée. La nature ne nous offre le spectacle d’aucune 
continuation. Elle est d’une éternelle création ; for change 
is no less patent a fact than continuity, and, indeed, 
the two stand or fall together. True, discontinuity, 
where development is normal, is on a very small scale, but 
this is only the difference between looking at distances on 
a small instead of a large map; we cannot have even the 
smallest change without a small partial corresponding 
discontinuity ; on a small scale—too small, indeed, for 
us to cognise—these breaks in continuity, each one of 
which must, so far as our understanding goes, rank as a 
creation, are as essential a factor of the 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 
discontinuity, and a discontinuity in continuity ; that is 
to say, we can only conceive the help 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 become 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 living and saving. 
