Note 1 — Chapter IX · THE MYSTERY OF MYSTICISM, OR OF NATURE IN GOD.
George Eliot translation
It is beside our purpose to criticise this crass mystical theory. We merely remark here, that darkness can be explained only when it is derived from light; that the derivation of the darkness in Nature from light appears an impossibility only when it is not perceived that even in darkness there is a residue of light, that the darkness in Nature is not an absolute, but a modified darkness, tempered by light. ↑