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fluence, not only as a most fertile source of pure 

 and substantial pleasures ; pleasures which, un- 

 like many others, produce instead of satiety 

 desire, but also as a great moral agent; and 

 what effects I anticipate from this growing 

 taste may be readily inferred, when I avow it 

 as one of the most fearless articles of my creed* 

 that it is scarcely possible for a man, in whom 

 its power is once firmly established, to become 

 utterly debased in sentiment, or abandoned in 

 principle. His soul may be said to be brought 

 into habitual union with the Author of Na- 

 ture; 



Haunted for ever by the Eternal Mind. 



