apprehend such truths as a child understands his picture-book, neither knowing nor caring about the alphabet which might help to explain the meaning.
The attempt to describe the action of a newlydiscovered mountain having peculiar volcanic and magnetic relations, simply enough to make it fairly intelligible to the average reader, would be far from an easy or a brief task. With the best intentions, one might yet measurably fail. Let him begin where he will, he must begin in the very middle of a complex discussion.
But conscious units of being, if such exist, exist not only in the midst of relationships which are infinitely involved; but they are invisible units, destined to remain unseen to human eyes, if possibly they can be perceived by human intellects. Doing my best, then, will the people turn away from the investigation as from a fool-hardy enterprise?
In any event, to the writer, these great subjects have been a perennial source of unfailing interest and contentment. They have removed the ills of life backward to an almost vanishing point in comparison with the good which clusters about every path