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gflpitlid atftrt ' ia life with an eager , pure , and elevttttd deVfetfoifc to knowledge- He did spend nraay years in the East , makin g rich a ^ d varied acquisitions for the attainment of his purple . In his reappearance , and in his professorship at Basil , he did , by the auCtiere of his practice and the boldness of his speculations * firfct excite astonishment , then attract reverence ,, confidence , and
fanatical regard , and eventually draw down upon himself a fierce and stormy persecution . In the circumstances of his exile add death , and in the peculiarities of his opinions , the poet has scarcely , if at alii deviated from fact , but made historical truth the gerao of those higher truths of poetry and philosophy , of which , in this work , he cqttoetvedj and has , we think , realized the developemeftt . 9
' Paracelsusis not a drama ; and although generally in form a dialogue , is often in spirit a monologue , tlie other speakers being iotroduced as subservient to the delineation , by Paracelsus himself , of the several states of his mental being , which in their , succession
make up the history of his character , both in its individuality and as the symbolic representation of human nature . There Is no action , there is no direct exhibition of transition ; results only are presented * Each of the five acts or parts into which the poem is distributed , is the delineation , or at least is intended to be so , of 'h
mental and moral condition , every one of which is markedly distinguished from the rest , while yet there is a faithful preservation of individual identity , and sufficient indication of the tUMfcaNwy connexion of cause and effect , and of the various agencies and influences which had continued their powerful and ceaseless o | terfc < titm ^ durin g the unrecorded intervals . Part the First , entitled * Paracelsus a » pikes , ' is a con variation
between Paracelsus and Festus , his fellow-student arid boaoni friend , and Michal the betrothed of Festus , in a garden ill the environs of Wiirtaburgh , on an autumnal evening of the year 1907 ; Pa * aoelsus being about to set forth the following morhiog on his loag and strange pilgrimage . He believes himself destined to
the acquisition of Knowledge , infinitely more precious to the human race than any treasured in the am&ls of learning ; than any to be demonstrated by the logical apparatus of the geometer and tile metaphysician ; or to be extorted by the powers of magic from the meaner spirits of the invisible wofld . He maintains l&t
truth is not to be found without us , but wit hittr *** . That it emanate * from the soul outwards , as some propitious orfht < l l ^> sotiM happy chance , opens its way through the covering With wMoh' tm gross flesh hems in perfect and trtle Bereepiicto / ' 8 to bts ^ titetyme ipl to ldarn , by comm % iiric » tii | g wiih tupikitelw imd £ r alkthn ( divwaUStod rtwdi * o « tions of variouJi vecMt ^ , the U # s bjt whieb the light of # ur < xrn spirits i # 4 hwm 4 fG « ffoto U 4 t 4 wi *> y wfaub k mmy \» i m ^ fm * ta ^ M 4 it * lmm& a ?» M « % « h& out & 0 m £ ; Hho | iati *^ the t ** imxy , ( P t ^ rn > r 9 i ^^ mjy ^ 6 f the design are discussed between him and life kimuU , am thmy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 718, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/26/
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