It is the man who talks about "a law" that he has never seen who is the mystic.

Nay, the ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist.

He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

He has so often seen birds fly and lay eggs that he feels as if there must be some dreamy, tender connection between the two ideas, whereas there is none.

A forlorn lover might be unable to dissociate the moon from lost love; so the materialist is unable to dissociate the moon from the tide.