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On a personal level it destroys trust between the men and turns Augustine's love for Mitzi to waste. But is it possible to grasp the fundamental causes of the breakdown, causes which lie underneath the bare historical facts on the one hand and abstract philosophical theories on the other? Hughes believes that if we look closely at the ways in which people relate themselves to their fellow men as individuals and in societies, this is possible. His explanation appears in chapter 26 of Polly and Rachel and is continued to the end of the book.
But her experience is incomplete. Still, Hughes suggests, there is a small part of Mitzi, 'which even now watched the transaction as it were from outside; and curiously that outsider was the "I" at the transaction's very heart'. The gap between total immersion in God (giving up the soul to full acceptance of God's presence there, as everywhere), and the state Mitzi is in now (sensing God's 'finding' her but aware of herself at the centre of His discovery), seems a very small one. But it takes Mitzi years, and Hughes volumes, to close it.
Yet God can look: as the eagle can stare at the brightness of the sun, so God stared at even the blackness within without blinking; and under the burning eye of that burning relentless Love she was molten metal that heaved in a crucible under its scum. Mitzi's Catholic spirit here joins with Milton's Protestantism to celebrate the power of God to make darkness visible: So much the rather than Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see ....