Your strongest certainties rest upon the analysis of material forms whose essence you persistently ignore.
"There is a Higher Knowledge of which, too late, some men obtain a glimpse, though they dare not avow it.

Such men comprehend the necessity of considering substances not merely in their mathematical properties but also in their entirety, in their occult relations and affinities.
The greatest man among you divined, in his latter days, that all was reciprocally cause and effect; that the visible worlds were co-ordinated among themselves and subject to worlds invisible.

He groaned at the recollection of having tried to establish fixed precepts.

Counting up his worlds, like grape-seeds scattered through ether, he had explained their coherence by the laws of planetary and molecular attraction.
You bowed before that man of science--well! I tell you that he died in despair.

By supposing that the centrifugal and centripetal forces, which he had invented to explain to himself the universe, were equal, he stopped the universe; yet he admitted motion in an indeterminate sense; but supposing those forces unequal, then utter confusion of the planetary system ensued.