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made to be . ; DL « d ^« rdrj phiiamtViropist ^ reformer , be J&i cannot help man as he v « a * ld > < f afacF turns with loathingfrom : the paltry honours Vhidfe t ? h #% drld , And even ^ Kfeirrand r dusks ? ait amazing s 93 && ^ &iM gferf . » He feels'their hollowness ; lie foresee thmr * s ^ fele ^ r ^ versctlv ? The antic ipated misanthropy of baffled beaevo-j lence is upon him in its bitterness . He would look on men ^ Uh
the eyes of intelligent love , and be gladdened by a responsive gaze ; but he cannot . bear the blindness of his disciples' admiration , and of his foes' hostility . Festus departs , in sadness and sore perplexity , with the implied promise of being recalled should the spirit of Faracelsus ever recover its pristine trust , and hope , and energy .
' Paracelsus aspikes . * Such is the title of the fouTth part as of the first . Two short years , and Festus is summoned to bis side . The tide ! has turned at Basil . The popular professor is bunted out as a disgraced quack , whom every reptile friay insult , and every dunce despise . Paracelsus is in the world ' s
martyrology of those whom society brands and blasts for their benevolence ; whom it cannot forgive for advancing with a quicker pace , and for attempting to quicken its own march ; on whose devoted heads it pours all the vials of envy , hatred , contempt , and deadly persecution . In the tumult of his soul there djmly shines the star of a renovated hope . Hitherto he has aimed at being something apart from humanity : he would be a benefactor , but not himself identified with the benefited . He has not realized
men ' s feelings , noted how even their prejudices atid hatreds belong to the working out of the capabilities of their nature , made himself as one of them , without intolerances and superiorities , and seen the great laws of physical and moral being eroJving the progressive tendencies of the entire human race . This has he now to learn , and after it his spirit gropes and
plunges , like a man in danger of drowning in a dark and stormy sea . However impressive in itself , and masterly in execution , we doubt whether the author ' s purpose be sufficiently distinct in this part . He rather describes the mind of his hero in its state of tr *^ itiJrt «* feiti'in that of aspiration .
Part Five , ' PARAc # LstJ 8 attains / Thirteen more years have passed away . Ferftu fc is hy the deathbed of PWfeuieku * , in a cell in the hospital of Sft . Sebastian at Salrfmfgtt / wfttthing for a moment of consciousness , and Wr ^ stliti g With' ' 6 od iiri the destiny of his friend . Tlje Weftujg < Sf tiW scenfc is deepl y a ^ c ting ; but we continue to ft ^ sto& ji ^ m extract that we i ^ ay pave . room for a considerable tx > rtjj ^ , o ; . i ^ couclufiion . P ^ racel ^ ua revives ; he apprehend % 4 bMTth ^ W ^^ nc ^ r ^ f , Fe ^ tw i » an i ^ itiinatKm to him of his ' last mi 8 $ loni ; Vbe' / CalU foidnthe i ^ Ikw in wjmh ^ ¥ ^ had been accustomed to lettahr ^ ip ipg rwitlk * kjmmak \ iito i ^ aregy from his bed ; ^ iV * M \ $ e mAl " io- / ru ( f »* mifvirft'K >' j ^ b---jf «« r t ul
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/28/
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