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    Plato affirms , in a state of disease . But no arguments which Plato urges have power to make those love or desire virtue , who ^ do not already : nor is this ever to be effected through the intellect , but through the imagination and the affections .

    The love of virtue , and every other noble feeling , is not communicated by reasoning , but cau ght by inspiration or sympathy from those who already have it ; and its nurse and foster-mother is Admiration . We acquire it from those whom we love and reverence , especially from those whom we earliest love and reverence ; from our ideal of those , whether in past or in present

    times , whose lives and characters have been the mirror of all noble qualities ; and lastly , from those who ., as poets or artists , can clothe those feelings in the most beautiful forms , and breathe them into us through our imagination and our sensations . It is thus that Plato has deserved the title of a great moral write ^ Christ did not argue about virtue , but commanded it : Plato ,

    when he argues about it ., argues for the most part inconclusively ; but he resembles Christ in the love which he inspires for it , and in the stern resolution never to swerve from it , which those who can relish his writings naturally feel when perusing them . And the present writer regrets that his imperfect abstract

    is so ill fitted to convey any idea of the degree in which this dialogue makes the feelings and course of life which it inculcates commend themselves to our inmost nature , by associating them with our most impressive conceptions of beauty and power .

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    B 42 L Aa Evening Reverie by the Sea-side .

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    There is nothing in the world which has not its many times repeated likeness . Infinitely as form , as colour , or as sensation is varied , there are but a certain number of thoughts which are thus expressed in endless change . These thoughts are the workings of the soul—the soul of this whole universe—the soul of

    man . All else is but the type of this , imaged around us , that we may there read our own beauty—there feel our own immensity . How very beautiful 1 The sea is as calm as undisturbed meditation . The evening star burns clearly over that distant and wavy-outlined isle . The silver curve of the new-born moon gleams brightly in the crimson-tinted sunset . The wild and desolate beach , with its endless piles of wave-washed stones , like past tne

    nours , counters ot time , which changes not , but in its silentlyincreasing number , reminds the mortal who thence gazes on that beauteous scene , that he may be even as that star in brightening glory , or but as a stone , washed up and away from the ocean-bed of time , on the dreary shore of the unheeded past . Hark ! the tide is coming , with its minor tone of aweet mournfulness . It would

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    AN EVENING REVERIE BY THE SEA-SIDE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 842, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/24/