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the possibility of worshipping the real within the ideal. We 
stand in awe at the blood, shed by the religious enthusiasm of 
the Puritans, and the cruelties that the Ironsides perpetrated 
under the banner of the ‘‘ Lord of Hosts.” We are repelled by 
the loathsome conceptions of the Romantic schools of France and 
Germany. Later on we find a healthier glow arises from the 
National school in England, the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, 
and Southey, and again deepened by Byron and Shelley, who 
maintained that Love was the great principle of the universe, 
and therefore intensified their love for humanity, and for the 
emancipation of the human intellect ; then we reach the apex 
in Browning’s teaching, that the highest form of human love is 
self-sacrificing and redemptive in its character, and necessarily 
becomes that pathway which leads to the Divine. 
“ No gain 
That I experience, must remain unshared,” 
for 
‘« Love is the startling thing, the new, 
Love is the all-sufficient too ; 
And seeing that, you see the rest.” 

