Accused Woman Sharply Questioned by the Court on Her Knowledge of the Mysterious Mr, Chen of those that know," had once said that the course of any stream was determined by many causes. By the prevailing winds that blew over its surface, by the configuration of the ground that formed its bed, which again was due to the underlying strata reaching down to the very centre of the earth, And the moral nee drew from this simple fact, as obvious once it is pointed out a3 the illustration given by the great navigator of how to make an egg stand on its end, was that all men's actions are governed by hidden causes which have their roots deep in the nature of things. In these days of boasted progress it is astonishing how of ten "those that know" hark back to the obiter' dicta of the ancient sages. We are cleverer than they were but: Our minds run to and we bend the forces of nature to serve our ends, but have ceased to specu-Tate on the reason why these things are so. Behind nature, as we know it, there looms a great mystery, as mysterious to us a8 it was to Aristotle, but we have accepted defeat and acknowledge that the solution of this mystery is beyond us.
Turning for a moment, to ths words of the sage, we see how they are as true in our age as they were in his, We are about to celebrate the New Year and we shall felicitate each other on the fact that we have passed another milestone and that another 365 days of our allotted span of life has passed into 2 bygone eternity. How many of us will pause and reflect that our year is measured by the revolution of the earth around the sua and that the ultimate cause of our festivities is written in the eternal stars: for we know not what perturbations go from the sun, the centre of our universe, to some stupendous and hidden galaxy that may be the centre of his. 'The little frivolities that we are about to practise, each in our own insignificant' cire have their hidden roots in a tremendous event that sends a tremor through the ether tol'! es of the moon and his memory is green while the names of his judges have perished. Just to show how little the world changes we may recall that two thousand years after the death of Socrates there was a peasant id in France who, like him daimon" and heard voices said they were the voices of saints and angels. By their direction, and the wisdom and might they gave her, she wrought a mighty deliverance for her nation such as could in no wise have been attempted by the princes and prelates of her time. But, though she was as'pure in heart and soul as the saints and angels who, she said, spoke to her, those same princes and prelates decided that the only fitting thing to do with her was to ura her; which they did, with much pomp and ceremony, and scattered her ashes to the winds of heaven and said "that is an end of Jeanne dare." But it was not an'end, for later prelates, in holy conclave assembled," decreed that miracles were being wrought by such poor relics of the maid as had survived the fire and they canonized her, to whom their predecessors denied the Eucharist, the only grace she asked from them. And they have garnished her tomb and simple people kneel there and pray and go away comforted. Somehow, there is in Aristotle's "nature of things" some power that makes for righteousness.
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