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INTEODUCTOEY ESSAY. 35
very "hate of hate," which at firstmistranslated
itself into dehrious Queen Mab notes
and the like, would have got clearer-sighted
by exercise. The preliminary step to following
Christ, is the leaving the dead to bury their
dead—not clamouring on His doctrine for an
especial solution of difficulties which are referable
to the general problem of the universe.
Already he had attained to a profession of
" a worship to the Spirit of good within, which
requires
(before it sends that inspiration
forth, which impresses its Hkeness upon all
it creates) devoted and disinterested homage,
as Coleridge says,"—and
Paul likewise. And
we find in one of his last exquisite fragments,
avowedly a record of one of his own mornings
and its experience, as it dawned on him at
his soul and body's best in his boat on the
Serchio—that as surely as
" The stars burnt out in the pale blue air,
And the thin white moon lay withering there—