Description
All Things Are Possible
1
The obscure streets of life do not offer the conveniences of the
central thoroughfares: no electric light, no gas, not even a kerosene
lamp-bracket. There are no pavements: the traveller has to fumble his
way in the dark. If he needs a light, he must wait for a thunderbolt,
or else, primitive-wise, knock a spark out of a stone. In a glimpse
will appear unfamiliar outlines; and then, what he has taken in he
must try to remember, no matter whether the impression was right or
false. For he will not easily get another light, except he run his head
against a wall, and see sparks that way. What can a wretched pedestrian
gather under such circumstances? How can we expect a clear account from
him whose curiosity (let us suppose his curiosity so strong) led him to
grope his way among the outskirts of life? Why should we try to compare
his records with those of the travellers through brilliant streets?
2
The law of sequence in natural phenomena seems so plausible, so
obvious, that one is tempted to look for its origin, not in the
realities of actual life, but in the promptings of the human mind. This
law of sequence is the most mysterious of all the natural laws. Why so
much order? Why not chaos and disorderliness? Really, if the hypothesis
of sequence had not offered such blatant advantages to the human
intelligence, man would never have thought of raising it to the rank of
eternal and irrefutable truth. But he saw his opportunity. Thanks to
the grand hypothesis, man is forewarned and forearmed. Thanks to this
master-key, the future is at his mercy. He knows, in order that he may
foreknow: savoir pour prévoir. Here, is man, by virtue of one supreme
assumption, dictator henceforward of all nature. The philosophers
have ever bowed the knee
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