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to a higher and more wondrous development. It is for us to fall 
in with the nobler course of things, and contribute our humble 
part of knowledge and motive to the enrichment of our social and 
intellectual being — not afraid of questions that tax our utmost 
penetration, while giving heed to those of easy solution — in all 
things exercising the Charity that is lovely to behold, and blessed 
to cherish. We may often feel in our sobered heart that Life, 
with its struggling consciousness of good and ill, is indeed a 
mystery in itself, and that its origin to the purely scientific eye is 
hard to discern, and its right maintenance and guidance very diffi- 
cult; yet we may ever remember and act under the conviction 
that the practical solution of the mystery lies for us, as living 
beings, in thinking right, feeling right, and doing right, under the 
leading of such light as may shine on our pathway. 
CONVERSAZIONE. 
(3rd October, 1889.) 
An account of this will be found among the Eeports. 
