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SWEATER KNIT: in the master who made it. To know Him is hard.... For sweater knit from our forefather Adam to our own day, we labor to attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; sweater knit in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His greatness...." Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with his whole soul what the stranger said. Whether he accepted the wise reasoning contained in the Mason's words, or believed as a child believes, in the speaker's tone of convictionSWEATER KNIT: and earnestness, or the tremor of the speaker's voice- which sometimes almost broke- or those brilliant aged sweater knit grown old in this conviction, or the sweater knit firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own dejection and hopelessness)- at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, regeneration, and return to life. "He is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life," said the Mason. "I do not understand," said Pierre, feeling with
SWEATER KNIT: dismay doubts reawakening. He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in the Mason's arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. "I don't understand," he said, "how it is that the mind of man cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak." The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. "The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe," he said. "Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure sweater knit and judge of sweater knit purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some
SWEATER KNIT: degree of purity the liquid I receive." "Yes, yes, that is so," said Pierre joyfully. "The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. The highest wisdom has but one science- the science of the whole- the sweater knit explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. To receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew sweater knit inner self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to perfect one's self.
SWEATER KNIT: And to attain this end, we have the light called conscience that God has implanted in our souls." "Yes, yes," assented Pierre. "Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask thyself whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained relying on reason only? sweater knit art thou? You are young, you are rich, you are clever, you are well educated. And what have you done with all these good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?" "No, I hate my sweater knit Pierre muttered, wincing. "Thou hatest it. Then change it,
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