[5] _v._ pp. 27, 57, 126, 156, 168; _cf._ Dionysius: "_On Divine Names._" Cap. iv. (tr. by Parker). S. Aug. _Conf._: b. i. ch. 2; iii. 7; iv. 10-16; vii. 12-18. [6] See the extract from Hilton given as a note to chapter lvii. [7] _Little Flowers of a Childhood_ (in Mem. J. D. W., Oct. 1894--March 1899). Some of the thoughts of children,--some of the rising thoughts of a very little child who, like Julian, faced the darkness of time (steadfast as Dürer's pilgrim Knight, gentle as Chaucer's,) and beheld on his journey the shining of the Eternal City,--might be set beside words of the Mystics as shewing, perhaps, through their very simplicity, the oneness of truth that there is to see, and the oneness of souls that see it. Here are convictions that the Cause of love, felt within, "must be Jesus' Good Spirit"; comfort in discovering of death's unreality (for if only the body, not the spirit, dies, "Oh, then it is only _pretending-dying_!"); a flash of discernment, perhaps, as to the passing away of lifeless evil since although, to the child, indeed "it is a pity that some one did not come and kill the devil; and then he would be dead," yet he has his own eschatology: "Well, when _we_ are all dead, the devil will be dead too." More significant is a sudden overawed realisation of the great universe (setting pause to his own run round in play), one door to a quick perception in the child's devout spirit of analogy binding truths unseen by sense: "Is this world always going round, _now_?" ('Yes.') "It stays still! still!--Jesus is looking down now: we don't see Him."--Here, too, are habitual references to the things that are _meant to be_,--musings over the goodness and knowledge, the braveness and courtesy "meant to be" in a _man_; and here is a grateful, trusting sense of the real 'kindness' of 'wild' creatures and of hurting remedies. Many of those simple utterances, careless yet arresting like a blackbird's song, and personal with the ardent love and clear reason of a child faithfully living and bravely dying, seem to attest a kinship with seers of truth to whom longer trial has offered a sterner strength of complex thinking, for wider service here, but who, although they may have learnt thus '_more_' in the knowledge of love, "shall never know nor learn _other_ thing without end."--"I understood none higher stature in this life than childhood." "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be. * * * * * A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of Light."