The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All Four Novels All Fifty-six Adventures.
(1992)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Barnes & Noble Books, New York ISBN: 0-88029-261-X
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Naval Treaty p. 455-456
"…What a lovely thing a rose is!"
"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping
stalk of
a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was
a
new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any
keen
interest in natural objects."
" 'There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,'
said
he, leaning with his back against the shutters. 'It can be built up as an
exact
science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance 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 the flowers.' "
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." JOHN
8:32
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