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s * em pftoa&oes t ^ ji ^ ve discussed befbre ; argument not oi ^ y ( v \ iuQ ^> g the reader ' s interest iu what is to follow * but ^ Ucitiag a rflvijaw of > tp ^ youth and early impulses of Paracelsus ; and beftig < bea ^ i&lly . tempered by emotions of tenderness ^ of melaochjoly fora ^ drng * * ad of bold hopefulness , in the several characters .
The genius of Paracelsus prevails ; his friends at last express ill answer to his appeal , their faith that he will realize his high pur * po $ 3 $ ; aad he departs strong and expectant . Part , Second , ' Paracelsus attains . * Fourteen years have elapsed ; years of ceaseless wandering , and toil , and observation , arid inquiry , and multifarious attainment ; Paracelsus is brought to a pause , and reviews his career , and estimates his condition , iu a soliloquy which is nobly conceived , and not less nobly executed .
He fras learned much ; but some deeply seated error makes his career essentially a failure . To the darkening melancholy of his retrospect there comes an harmonious interruption in the chauntings * of Aprile , the poet , a human embodiment of the principle of love , as Paracelsus is of the desire for knowledge . He , too , has been an adventurer for the well-being of humanity ; he has failed ,
ajad i& the martyr of his own devotedness . From his deatU- » o » g , which he breathes in the arms of Paracelsus , the latter learns the extent of hi& own mistake , in having hitherto looked exclusively tQ the merely intellectual powers as the agencies of man ' s exaltation and happiness and attains the conviction that to love must ,, not less th ^ n to kno w , characterize the emancipator of the human race from the worst evils of their destiny .
Part Third , ( 1526 , ) Paracelsus has returned from the far East to liurop ^ determined , in the spirit of his last and great attainment * forthwith to disseminate whatever truths he has ascertained , aud apply them , to the purposes of philanthropy . The continent rings with his reputation . His cures are deemed miraculous Hi * doctrines are received as oracular . He is triumphantly installed as Professor of Medicine at Basil ; and regarded as the
herald of an advance in all that relates to man ' 8 physical condition ,, analogous to the great reformation in religion then achieving by Luther and his associates , A similar excitement prevails * The author pj&sen&s him to us in t ho evening , . after one of those ebullitions of poplar admiration which generall y attended hi * lectures * Q aly Festua is with him , in his chamber . It U . th * he
first tim ^ ty hav e met since the aspirant left WiirUburgh to cptpme ^ ce hi * career and fulfil his mission . Their coi } Yer&atiaty ccmtinqe * through the iiight . Paracelsus lays bare his hqart not witU the ^ xie nt ifi e coolness of a demonstrator repeating a cLi frr s ^ cjfiii ^ bulvin it | living anatomy . Many part ^ of this ( nalo gw *^ 4 wp * tip in a high degree , at > d remind us of those tonwr 0 f ] ofW * JW W ^ dk Keao > a * if by sudden lagjpi « atk ) D , would bum into the v ^ ry soul . Paracelsufl is not what ae purposed , ^ and . Wfl
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 719, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/27/
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