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the cause. Whereas the African's ears are his " darkness-
eyes," and they must play the part of both match and
candle. This auricular sharpness is also called " spiked
ears," and seemingly our so-called spike of acute hearing
has become blunt, because it thus depends on sight to
solve the problems of sound. This, he says, is the
reason why God, Who divided the twenty-four hours into
darkness and light, also divided man into ears and eyes,
the correlatives with twelve hours apiece. The Faraday
who made the world ring with his Chemical History of
a Candle would most surely have enjoyed this negro's
lecture on ** The Philosophy of a Candle."