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Beatrice

CHAPTER XIII
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Take the old illustration--take a cut crystal and hold it in the sun, and you will see many different coloured rays come from its facets.

They look different, but they are all born of the same great light; they are all the same light.

May it not be so with religion?
Let your altar be to the 'Unknown God,' if you like--for who can give an unaltering likeness to the Power above us ?--but do not knock your altar down.
"Depend upon it, Miss Granger, all indications to the contrary notwithstanding, there is a watching Providence without the will of which we cannot live, and if we deliberately reject that Providence, setting up our intelligence in its place, sorrow will come of it, even here; for it is wiser than we.

I wish that you would try and look at the question from another point of view--from a higher point of view.

I think you will find that it will bear a great deal of examination, and that you will come to the conclusion that the dictum of the wise-acre who says there is nothing because he can see nothing, is not necessarily a true one.


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