say they could die waltzing. There are bits of Wagner that I wouldn't mind dying to. You'll say dying is too serious a subject for jest. But I can't see that it's any more serious than living, which so many people are entirely frivolous about.
"Ah, no, Stephen, I don't think you are in your dotage. I too have read a good deal about Spiritualism, and I believe that what these men say is true. But I suppose I am one of those fortunate people who have faith, and that being so I had no need of proof. I don't know how my faith came to me. I have always had it, and so don't deserve any credit for it. The credit goes to people like you, who have had to struggle all their lives against unbelief. I believe, too, that so long as there is a diversity of creatures on this globe, so long will there be a diversity of religions. There is only one God, but the roads to the understanding of God are many.
"And so for you, and thousands like you, there is Crooks, with his laboratories and his cameras and his proofs. And for others there is Beauty. Hear what Tagore says:
O Thou Beautiful! How in the nest Thy love embraceth the soul with sweet sounds and color and fragrant odors!
