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visiting Timbuctoo , and tracing the course of the Niger ; whatever veracious histories may be put forth of kingdoms , ancient or modern , near or remote ; how wondrous soever may be the legends which romancers indite of heroes who braved the terrors of magic , who slew the brave , and loved the beautiful , who now
ascended thrones , and anon were cast into dungeons : in all the facts and fictions of outer being , which is but as outer darkness to the light within , never let the world be unheedful of those who have aught to tell concerning the human soul , so that they be but duly qualified by ' metaphysical aid , and make their revelations
with the ascertained authority of philosophical observation or poetic inspiration . , Rightly has Dr . Channing told us , in that noble exhortation to ' honour all men , ' * that * the great revelation which man now needs is a revelation of man to himself ; ' and that ' the mystery within ourselves , the mystery of our spiritual , accountable , immortal nature , it behoves us to explore ; happy
are they who have begun to penetrate it . ' With sorrow and shame we say it , tliat little is to be expected from professional theologians in this great service . Here and there amongst philosophers and poets , we find a true Jj ierophant , one who knows what is in man , and makes it visible , so that we gaze fixedly , as if at the upraising of the veil of Isis . From whatever quarter the light may come , we hail it reverently and gladly . In this is the power of Channing ' s own eloquent preachments , to which we have repeatedly done homage . This was the charm of those benignant speculations , in which Bailey showed the growth and rights of opinion . This is the soul of the luscious melodies of Tennyson , and of the loftier strains of Coleridge . And this must be found in every
one whose brows are destined to % vear the laurel , or be irradiated by the halo . The knowledge of mind is the first of sciences ; the records of its formation and workings are the most important of histories ; and it is eminently a subject for poetical exhibition . The annals of a poet ' s mind are poetry . Nor has there ever been a genuine bard , who was not in himself more poetical than any of his
productions . They are emanations of his essence . He himself is , or has been , all that he truly and touchingly , i . e . poetically , describes . Wordsworth , indeed , never carried a pedlar ' s pack , nor did Byron ever command a pirate ship , or Coleridge shoot an albatross ; but there were times and moods in which their thoughts intently realized , and identified themselves with the reflective
Wanderer , the impetuous Corsair , and the ancient Mariner . They felt their feelings , thought their thoughts , burned with their passions dreamed their dreams , and lived their lives , or died their deaths . In relation to his creations , the poet is the omhific spirit in whom they have their beipg . All their vitality must exist in his life . He only , in them , displays to us fragments of himself . The * Discoune 4 of the volume recently imported .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/37/
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