The most thoroughgoing materialist might acknowledge it.

But when it comes to spells, and all that gibberish, there, of course, I part company.

The magical power of certain precious stones may be a fact of nature, but I see no proof of its truth, and therefore I don't believe in it." "And now may we go and look at the flowers ?" suggested Austin.
"Come along," returned St Aubyn.

"What a boy you are for flowers! Do you know much of botany ?" "No--yes, a little--but not nearly as much as I ought," said Austin, as they strolled through the blaze of colour.

"I love flowers for their beauty and suggestiveness, irrespective of the classifications to which they may happen to belong.