A deep but dazzling darkness——”
This brings to our mind the concluding sentence of Mr. Ruskin’s fifth chapter in his second volume—“The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea.” Plato, if we rightly remember, says—“Truth is the body of God, light is His shadow.”
Death.
“Though since thy first sad entrance
By just Abel’s blood,
’Tis now six thousand years well nigh,
And still thy sovereignty holds good;
Yet by none art thou understood.
“We talk and name thee with much ease,
As a tryed thing,