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contradiction. Here lie does not strike his head at once against the 

 well-known safe-guards of knowledge, because his head is in the 

 clouds. By hypothesis he has transcended all the canons of reason. 



Let us look into the eye of Christian Science, search its nature, in- 

 spect its origin, and see the birth or whelping of this supposed lion, 

 which lies no great way back; we will thus find in ourselves a perfect 

 comprehension of its nature and extent. The world is his who can 

 see through its pretension. Let us not yet accept it as a fixed rule 

 that God only is substance and his methods illusion. Knowledge is 

 the knowing that we cannot know. The lesson of life is practically 

 to generalize, to believe what the years and the centuries say against 

 the hours; to resist the usurpation of particulars, and penetrate to 

 their general sense. Things seem to say one thing, and say the re- 



