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of life — of the completely enclosed tranquil fountain of a simple existence, 

 cut off from all turbid and stormy waters, as here. Both father and son 

 had been seamen in their youth. They had seen the world ; knew France, 

 Spain, and the ports of the Mediterranean, as sailors know them ; they 

 had carried back into their lonely valley a general picture of the relations 

 of the external world ; but the old man had lived here very long, and 

 even the son for more than ten years. The events that then convulsed 

 the world lay at an immense distance. Intervals, whether of time or 

 space, appeared to have lost their significancy ; and even the events of 

 their own country and neighbourhood were as strange to them, and 

 seemed as entirely severed from their own existence, as the events of the 

 most distant lands. And yet these remote things were as vividly present 

 to their simple minds, and affected their transparent souls as deeply, as 

 if they belonged to their own most intimate being. As the infant stretches 

 out its hands to grasp the most distant object as if it were to close it, so 

 did their warm guiltless hearts embrace the remotest events as if they 

 regarded themselves. They asked me a thousand questions. The whole 

 existence and mind of these people was of such a limpid clearness, that 

 I knew in a moment what incidents to relate, and how to describe them. 

 Never had I a more attentive audience — never did I hear sounder judg- 

 ments. The time passed with extreme rapidity in this soft physical and 

 mental twilight, and yet, when I left the hut, I felt as if I quitted a long- 

 accustomed home." — Steffens, in his " Was ich erlehte," 



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 East side of Scotland. 

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