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paltry few thousand years? Oh; the supercilious doubters! They ever

strive to clip the upward daring wings of the spirit。

A person deprived of one or more senses is not; as many seem to think;

turned out into a trackless wilderness without landmark or guide。 The

blind man carries with him into his dark environment all the faculties

essential to the apprehension of the visible world whose door is closed

behind him。 He finds his surroundings everywhere homogeneous with those

of the sunlit world; for there is an inexhaustible ocean of likenesses

between the world within; and the world without; and these likenesses;

these correspondences; he finds equal to every exigency his life offers。

The necessity of some such thing as correspondence or symbolism appears

more and more urgent as we consider the duties that religion and

philosophy enjoin upon us。

The blind are expected to read the Bible as a means of attaining

spiritual happiness。 Now; the Bible is filled throughout with references

to clouds; stars; colours; and beauty; and often the mention of these is

essential to the meaning of the parable or the message in which they

occur。 Here one must needs see the inconsistency of people who believe

in the Bible; and yet deny us a right to talk about what we do not see;

and for that matter what _they_ do not see; either。 Who shall forbid my

heart to sing: 〃Yea; he did fly upon the wings of the wind。 He made

darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters

and thick clouds of the skies〃?

Philosophy constantly points out the untrustworthiness of the five

senses and the important work of rea

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