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Rh Gazette called, "Isis Very Much Unveiled." And those caterpillars of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's! I concede the possible point; but I still contend that the first requirement of anything worthy to be called religion inis [sic] its incredibility.

Yes, but it is so. All the acknowledged joys of life, all its great adventures even in the purely physical world are achievements of the incredible. The doctors of Salamanca proved to Columbus that that wild contemplated voyage of his was against the laws of nature. When I was a schoolboy Jules Verne's submarine amused me as an impossible fantasy. Twenty years ago the airplane and the airship were jokes. Dirigible flight was an acknowledged incredibility. So, climbing higher, with the arts. The great achievements we name, and rightly, creations; here is