All these things he averred he had himself seen, and if people asked him how they were possible, he answered simply, "I can no more explain these phenomena than I can explain the law of gravitation, or the transformation of a caterpillar into a moth.

The first principles of everything are inexplicable.

The difference in our surroundings is only that some things are frequently observed, and others only seldom." His philosophy, which he had learned from the Brahmins, attracted Wilhelm greatly; it made many things clear to him which he himself had vaguely felt possible ever since he had learned to think.

"The phenomenon of things on this earth," said Dr.Schrotter, "is a riddle which we try to read in vain.

We are borne away by a flood, whose source and whose mouth are equally hidden from us.