129 
cause of this relation between sentiency and plea- 
sure and pain, between intelligence and good and 
evil. But we see as through a glass darkly. The 
multitude, ignorant of optics and of stage mechan- 
ism, gives the name of magic to a phantasmagoria. 
The cause producing such effects is to them utterly 
incomprehensible. They are placed where effects 
only are to be seen: a semiopaque skreen conceals 
the cause. Our induction is connected reasoning 
from effect to similar effect, from known relation to 
similar relation; but between us and the cause of 
the vast and wonderful display of concatenated ef- 
fects there is a skreen of impenetrable mystery. We 
cannot fly or climb over it, nor pioneer under it, nor 
batter through it. Until we can pass from the effect 
side to that of cause, 
** Reason in vain 
** Would from the existing what conclude the why:” 
But a Cause, a mighty Cause, adequate to such 
immensity of effects, is unquestionable. The eye 
has a perception of light contrasted with darkness 
in the phantasmagoria; the mind a perception or 
conception of order, of wisdom, and of power in the 
universe. As the relation of the eye to light, pro- 
ducing the perception of the luminous or enlight- 
ened objects; such is the relation of mind to an 
ordering, disposing, adapting Power, capable of or- 
daining good and evil to the excitement of its fa- 
culties. 
This is indeed the highest of conceivable rela- 
K 
