The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes - İngilizce Roman

“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,” said he, leaning with hisback against the shutters. “It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highestassurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things,our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance.

But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from theflowers.”

Percy Phelps and his nurse looked at Holmes during this demonstration waith surprise and agood deal of disappointment written upon their faces. He had fallen into a reverie, with the mossrose between his fingers. It had lasted some minutes before the young lady broke in upon it.