The single atoms in the course of this process of development step over the boundary toward consciousness.

At first it is a trembling, insecure foreboding, like the sensation of light to one nearly blind, then the outlines of truth become clearer, and all at once grow sharp and clearly defined.

The different attempts at explanation of the secrets of the world are the expression of these forebodings of truth.

So every one of the religious and philosophical systems is to my mind a grain of the truth, and the whole of it will be found in the great unity which we shall reach in a higher development." "As charming as a pretty story," said Schrotter, "but--it is only a story after all.

You conjecture that the thing is so situated, but you are not in a condition to prove it; and if I deny it, you have no means of compelling me to believe, as I can compell you to believe that twice two makes four.