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INTRODUCTOEY ESSAY. 41
ject.
It was not at Rome only (where he
heard a mystic voice exclaiming, " Cenci,
Cenci," in reference to the tragic theme which
occupied him at the time),—it was not at
Rome only that he mistook the cry of " old
rags."
The habit of somnambulism is said
to have extended to the very last days of
his life.
Let me conclude with a thought of Shelley
as a poet.
In the hierarchy of creative
minds, it is the presence of the highest faculty
that gives first rank, in virtue of its kind, not
degree; no pretension of a lower nature,
whatever the completeness of development
or variety of effect, impeding
the precedency
of the rarer endowment though
only in the germ. The contrary is sometimes
maintained; it is attempted to make the
lower gifts (which are potentially included in
the higher faculty) of independent value,
and equal to some exercise of the special