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52 LIGHT ON THB PATH away (when the life of this universe hą. passed away, and only its soul is left in the silence. What then will be the valu of the knowledge of its laws acquired b industry and observation ?
I pray that no reader or critic wi imagine that by what I have said I inten to depreciate or disparage acquired kno ledge, or the work of scientists. On th contrary; l' hold that scientific men a the pioneers of modern thought. T days of literature and of art, when pou and sculptors saw the divine light, ai put it into their own great language these days lie buried in the long past wi the ante-Phidian sculptors and the pi Homeric poets. The Mysteries no long fule the world of thought and beaui human life is the governing power, i that which lies beyond it. But scientific workers are progressing, not much by their own will as by sheer fo of circumstances, towards the far 1
