The Nuptial Flight 
the entire truth lies captive within their 
two hands. For the first have made 
ample preparations to receive the truth, 
have provided most hospitable lodging 
within them ; and even though their eyes 
may not see it, they are eagerly looking 
towards the beauty and grandeur where 
its residence surely must be. 
We know nothing of nature’s aim, 
which for us is the truth that dominates 
every other. But for the very love of 
this truth, and to preserve in our soul the 
ardour we need for its search, it behoves 
us to deem it great. And if we should 
find one day that we have been on a 
wrong road, that this aim is incoherent 
and petty, we shall have discovered its 
pettiness by means of the very zeal its 
presumed grandeur had created within us ; 
and this pettiness once established, it will 
teach us what we haveto do. In the mean- 
while it cannot be unwise to devote to its 
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