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ought to expect mystery can be
No Objection whatever to the alleged
fact which the mystery enwraps.
Mystery is urgent rather than re-
-pellant; a stimulant rather than
a narcotic; an inspiration rather
than a defeat. It involves not the un-
-knowable, but the unknown. It
implies the knowable; for
when it is sure that anything
is unknowable then all mystery is
taken away & a frozen fact; a proven
iceburg is discovered. What is mys-
-tery but a condition of our minds,
a condition that may be removed,
a condition that may be softened
when not removed, a condition
that is very tolerable, though not

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