to the phrase, and he has taken it as a text of a remarkable
discourse upon the 'Renascence of Wonder in Religion.' I am tempted
to quote some of his words:--

Amongst the Logia recently discovered by the explorers of the Egypt
Fund, there is one of which part was already known to have occurred
in the Gospel according to the Hebrews. It runs as follows:--'Let
not him that seeketh cease from his search until he find, and when
he finds he shall wonder: wondering he shall reach the kingdom, and
when he reaches the kingdom he shall have rest.'...We believe that
Butler was one of the first to share in the Renascence of Wonder,
which was the renascence of religion....Men saw once more the
marvel of the universe and the romance of man's destiny. They
became aware of the spiritual world, of the supernatural, of the
lifelong struggle of the soul, of the power of the unseen.

The words quoted by Dr. Nicoll might very appropriately be used as a
motto for _Aylwin_ and also for its sequel _The Coming of
Love: Rhona Boswells Story_.




PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-SECOND EDITION OF 1904

Nothing in regard to Aylwin has given me so much pleasure as the way
in which it has been received both by my Welsh friends and my Romany
friends. I little thought, when I wrote it, that within three years
of its publication the gypsy pictures in it would be discoursed upon
to audiences of 4000 people by a man so well equipped to express an