Excerpt from Nephele Nowadays we have enthroned Reason, and banished Belief. Everything is brought to the test of scientific explana tion, that is, of Probability. In fact it has come to this, that whereas the larger mind of elder days balanced restlessly between Possibility and Impossibility, we, on the other hand, keep the index within the more prudent limits of Probability and Improbability. In these matters I am thankful to say that I belong to the old world. There is nothing I distrust more than my own rea son - except other people's; and nothing I more unhesitatingly trust than those subtle unreasoning instincts, which flash upon the soul as by some sixth sense, clear as eyesight, and as unimpeachable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.