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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
105
Which
is
more
strange,
that
an
inexplicable
and
unfathomable
thing
should
occur
once
and
for
all,
or
that
it
should
occur
a
million
times
every
day
all
the
world
over?
Let
those,
however,
who
are
too
proud
to
wonder,
do
as
seems
good
to
them.
Their
want
of
wonder
will
not
help
them
toward
the
required
explanation:
and
to
them,
as
to
us,
as
soon
as
we
begin
asking,
“How?”
and
“Why?”
the
mighty
Mother
will
only
reply
with
that
magnificent
smile
of
hers,
most
genial,
but
most
silent,
which
she
has
worn
since
the
foundation
of
all
worlds;
that
silent
smile
which
has
tempted
many
a
man
to
suspect
her
of
irony,
even
of
deceit
and
hatred
of
the
human
race;
the
silent
smile
which
Solomon
felt,
and
answered
in
“Ecclesiastes;”
which
Goethe
felt,
and
did
not
answer
in
his
“Faust;”
which
Pascal
felt,
and
tried
to
answer
in
his
“Thoughts,”
and
fled
from
into
self-torture
and
superstition,
terrified
beyond
his
powers
of
endurance,
as
he
found
out
the
true
meaning
of
St.
John’s
vision,
and
felt
himself
really
standing
on
that
fragile
and
slippery
“sea
of
glass,”
and
close
beneath
him
the
bottomless
abyss
of
doubt,
and
the
nether
fires
of
moral
retribution.
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