Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.

Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) (ed. Delphi Classics, 2013) - ISBN: 9781908909268