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    light : ' besides that it implies both cold and dampness , two things the most opposed to our notions of enjoyment . lake that of the ancient magi is the worship we pay to the bright element * in return for the content which it gives to our senses , and the faculties which it unlocks in our souls . It is climate and companion too—increasing tenfold the charm of the society of those we love , the only kind of society worthy the

    name . It is sweet in the still night-air to discourse eloquent music ' under that deep everlasting roof ; and the noblest of earth ' s emotions fill the soul to overflowing in the silent presence of the infinite sea . But these , ' like angels' visits , few and far between , ' are scattered sparingly over life's way ; while every day in every winter month may bring the pleasures of friendship and the heart ' s home .

    Talk of suicide in November ! they must be fit for nothing else who can ; be moved thereto by bad weather . Much more natural would it be to leave the world when it is too beautiful to be endured . In the bad there is something to resist—and resistance is the principle of life , say the learned . One may imagine some suicidal impulse in spring time , if it were but in impatience of the Mephistophelean mockery of so much beauty and life , and enjoyment and hope .

    All the enjoyments of winter are of the kind which can the most easily be brought within the compass of the individual will . If they are in their nature less spiritual than those of spring and autumn , they admit of being made the most perfect of their kind . A thousand checks of custom or convenience may and do arise to

    prevent our having , in the right mood and with the right society , the breath of morning , newly alighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; whence , in the devout stillness of the blue and dewy air , we might look down on ' the kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof ;' intense admiration of * the world , ' which is all before us , ' making it hard to bear that it is not for us * to choose where . ' But in winter

    the eye is ' satisfied with seeing and the ear with hearing , ' when for the one there is a bright fire , and for the other a voice we love . All objects take the impress of the mind which receives them ; and if ' tout devient sentiment dans un coeur sensible , '

    jnot less does all become vulgarized by a merely external eye . No more than the flower constitutes fragrance without the corresponding sense , does the un stored mind or frigid heart constitute a sentient being : he whom no < spirits teach in breeze-born melodies / would perchance find such breezes but * an ill wind that blows nobody good '—

    -* The better vision will not come unsought , Though to the worshipper ' tis ever nigh / , After the night , the day-r- ^ and after winter spring comes again ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 826, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/34/