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366 THINGS IN GENERAL.
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simile in Her ' Vision of Poets ? ' Slie speaks of * W Lucretius ho dropp , nobler ed Ms tlian lummet Ms niood down , the broad
p I think that icture Deep U of niverse the , large and said intellect , " _JSTo Gro p d itting ! " ' itself _against p
the vastness of creation , and deceived by the hopeless sublimity it tried to fathomis one of the finest in modern poetry . Do you
, not I . see F . Lucretius " Yesif Lucretius musing " , with had . been a shake humbler , of the , he head would ?" have known
that it was of , no use to seek Godin the rushing wind or the no roaring account fire , I but think only the in the notion ' still that small _^ man voice can ' which grasp sufficient he made of of
. the truth of outward nature to deduce spiritual things therefrom ah enormous presumption . "
46 Exactly , and therefore I very often fee ! inclined to let thinking entirely alonefeeling neither strength nor handiness . "
, I . F . " What a precious philosopher !" " The very last thing I set up for : but I see you have one more
aphorism I . F . " . " Here it is . ' What is rightly understood and rightly exand bthat
pressed in the present , suits also the past and future , y sign " I may think be that known just to one be true of those . ' " wise speeches with the meaning
of which it is almost impossible to grapple . It is true of moral truth of course , but the test of fitness in past , present , and future ,
seems to be again above the scope of the human intellect . We can ward princi make position p but le to a all very if possible we roug did h not circumstances calculation fortunatel , of find and the these should app things licability be in settled an of awk any for
-, y us beforehand , instead of having each one of us to build up our her princi LP ideas p . les " We by In practical shall all such get beyond experiment lives it our is . dep " reall th if the we do loving not leave chronicler Rahel who and
interests . me mostwho believes so devoutl y y in the interests of another , ( never mind , how much of it is tinsel , ) and other desires contents nothing
but ' ¦ Woman to g ' lorif s Work y their in Sanitary name . Reform But pass ! ' " on to the ; c Is indisputable , and only depends on wise fulfilment . Then
comes the Poem . " by I . her F . initials " ' Minerva at least Medica ; well , ' , as a poem a dear inscribed lover of to Rome of Miss the , ancient Blackwell wild villa and ,
that gardens modern unused , , left it calle temp to a d le waste up It in and is my beautiful on mind the offs many luxuriance kirts visions of the , amidst Esquiline which and stands not
. , far from the glorious Basilica of Sta . Maria Maggiore , to which remember , the
old worship may be said to be transferred , for do you not that entirely appropriate line in the Latin litany ? '
' Salus Trifirmorumora pro _nolris . " _,
366 Things In General.
366 THINGS IN GENERAL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/6/
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