And life, time—with all their chances, changes,—just probation-space,
Mine, for me."A
A: La Saisiaz.
And the world would not be such a probation-space did we once penetrate into its inmost secret, and know its phenomena as veritably either good or evil. There is the need of playing something perilously like a trick on the human intellect if man is to strive and grow.
"Here and there a touch
Taught me, betimes, the artifice of things—
That all about, external to myself,
Was meant to be suspected,—not revealed
Demonstrably a cheat—but half seen through."B
B: A Bean-Stripe.