"I should, perhaps, be a happier, at all events a more useful, man, if my mind were otherwise constituted. But so it is: and even with regard to Christianity itself, like certain plants, I creep towards the light, even though it draw me away from the more nourishing warmth. Yea, I should do so, even if the light made its way through a rent in the wall of the Temple."-COLERIDGE. "Perplex'd in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out; "He fought his doubts and gather'd strength; And laid them: thus he came at length "To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, "But in the darkness and the cloud." TENNYSON. "No inquirer can fix a direct and clear-sighted gaze towards Truth, who is casting side glances all the while on the prospects of his soul."-MARTINEAU. "What hope of answer or redress? TENNYSON. b |