[A page from the new edition, just issuing from the press, of Science and Health.]
God is the Life, or Intelligence, that preserves the individuality of men and animals. What availeth it to investigate material life, that ends, even as it began, in nameless nothingness? We gain the only true sense of being, and its continuance, when we awake from this material dream.
How profoundly true are the words of Blanco White, in his sonnet on Night:—