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"You can easily imagine, then, the deep enthusiastic feeling and the
religious sentiment of a person always in a similar state of ecstasy.
Even if blind, abandoned by his friends, do you think there is nothing to
envy in his lot? or that his destiny is not infinitely happier than our
own? For my own part I have not the slightest doubt of it.
"But you will, doubtless, say such a condition is impossible--the mind
of man would break down under such a load of happiness. And, moreover,
whence could such happiness be derived? What organs could transmit,
and where could it find, such a sensation of universal life?
"This, ladies, is a question to which I can give you no answer; but I ask
you to listen and then judge.
"The very day I arrived at the chalet I had made a singular remark--the
blind girl was especially uneasy about the bees.
"While the wind was roaring without Raesel sat with her head on her hands
listening attentively.
"'Father,' said she, 'I think at the end of the apiary the third hive on
the right is still open. Go and see. The wind blows from the north; all
the bees are home; you can shut the hive.
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