The Nuptial Flight 



seeks for conviction, while his researches 

 even conduct him to the very reverse of 

 that which he loves, he directs his conduct 

 by the most humanly beautiful truth, and 

 clings to the one that provisionally seems 

 to be highest. All that may add to 

 beneficent virtue enters his heart at once ; 

 all that would tend to lessen it remaining 

 there in suspense, like insoluble salts that 

 change not till the hour for decisive ex- 

 periment. He may accept an inferior 

 truth, but before he will act in accord- 

 ance therewith he will wait, if need be for 

 centuries, until he perceive the connection 

 this truth must possess with truths so 

 infinite as to include and surpass all 

 others. 



In a word, he divides the moral from 

 the intellectual order, admitting in the for- 

 mer that only which is greater and more 

 beautiful than was there before. And 

 blameworthy as it may be to separate the 

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