in the seclusion of his garret, that product of his own early manhood offered up as a sacrifice to be coined into ideas, "amused her," and brought him great reward -- "an invitation to visit her again; permission to continue his visits" till he tired of her, and was dismissed as incapable of rousing in her any new sensation.

Remembering Raphael's intoxication of imagination in his garret, we see that he then created subjectively, by his thoughts, what he afterward actualized with his experience. That this connection experience is a fact, Balzac's metaphysics, equally with those of our own day, teach. He saw Thought as the Creative Energy which was directed by the Will, and recognized the consequences both of its trained and wise use, and of its ignorant abuse. He saw it as both destructive and constructive, and both consequences are graphically portrayed in these three book.

It is no wonder they were not understood in the day in which they were written. The wave of the deeper insight which is moving forward at the close of the nineteenth century, enables many to see that to which they also would have been blind even ten years ago; for the power of the trained and directed thinking as an avenue for the operation of the Universal Thought Energy, is being demonstrated more and more. The claim that it can thus employed for the betterment of all conditions has passed the stage of superficial