These in some dark way I thought before I could write, and felt before I could think: that we may proceed more easily afterwards, I will roughly recapitulate them now.

I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself.

It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation; it may be a conjuring trick, with a natural explanation.

But the explanation of the conjuring trick, if it is to satisfy me, will have to be better than the natural explanations I have heard.

The thing is magic, true or false.