XVII AN INTERLUDE OF REFLECTIONS

A PROPOS of the last chapter and its observations, JLX may I be pardoned for introducing a short interlude of reflections ? Those who do not care for them can easily pass on. Lewis Morris, in one of the most musical of his poems, asks where are

" The faiths men knew,

When before mind grew,

All strange things seemed true " ?

Then answers himself

" The old faiths grown more wider,

Purer and glorified,

Are still our lifelong guide.

Nothing that once has been,

Tho' ages roll between, And it no more be seen,

Can perish, for the Will,

Which doth our being fulfil,

Sustains and keeps it still."

第十七章 反思插曲

在前一章及其觀察的基礎上，我是否可以得到寬恕，允許我插入一段短暫的反思插曲呢？那些對此不感興趣的人可以輕鬆跳過。路易斯·莫里斯（Lewis Morris）在他最具音樂感的詩篇之一中問道：

「人們曾經信仰的事物，

當心靈尚未成長時，

一切奇異之物似乎都是真的。」

然後他自己回答說：