He was very
long-winded.
But this happened. The kittens grew up--such as did not perish
through their own fault. They got their eyes fully opened. They
saw the Man, recognized him and asked only to be allowed to stay
in his house. "Excuse us," they said, "for being such foolish
kittens. But you know our eyes were not quite open."
"Don't mention it," said the kind Man. "Go down cellar and help
yourselves to mice."
That's the end of the parable. We are all blind kittens, and our
few attempts at explaining nature's wonders and kindness only get
us into deeper and deeper mysteries.
We discover that the earth goes round the sun. But the greatest
scientist must admit his inability to tell or guess why it goes.
"Give me the initial impulse," he says, "and all the rest is
easy."
The blind kittens in their wagon say: "Give our wagon just one
shove and we'll explain the rest."
The kitten gets hold of a law of "milk-passing" and substitutes
that for man's individual kindness.
The feeble-minded agnostic seizes the law of gravitation and
thinks he can discard God with gravity's help.
But the great mind that defined gravity's law was a religious
mind--too profound to see anything final in its own feeble power.
Newton was no atheist.
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