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A Romance of Two Worlds

CHAPTER XVII
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Avoid it as you would the plague.

Believe in anything or everything miraculous and glorious--the utmost reach of your faith can with difficulty grasp the majestic reality and perfection of everything you can see, desire, or imagine.

Mistrust that volatile thing called Human Reason, which is merely a name for whatever opinion we happen to adopt for the time--it is a thing which totters on its throne in a fit of rage or despair--there is nothing infinite about it.

Guide yourself by the delicate Spiritual Instinct within you, which tells you that with God all things are possible, save that He cannot destroy Himself or lessen by one spark the fiery brilliancy of his ever-widening circle of productive Intelligence.

But make no attempt to convert the world to your way of thinking--it would be mere waste of time." "May I never try to instruct anyone in these things ?" I asked.
"You can try, if you choose; but you will find most human beings like the herd of swine in the Gospel, possessed by devils that drive them headlong into the sea.


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