LVI.

Supposing the whole Bible, every trace of Christendom to disappear

to-morrow, we should each of us be conscious of a presence, which we

are quite sure is not ourself, in the deepest recesses of our own

heart, communing with us there and calling us to take up our two-fold

birthright as man—the mastery over visible things, and above all the

mastery over our own bodies, actions, thoughts—and the power, always

growing, of a mysterious communion with the invisible.

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