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the haunts of civilisation ! How great and exalted 

 in comparison does free Nature seem, as it unrolls 

 before us, in one vast picture, the whole majesty 

 and splendour of its creative power!" Thus he 

 himself describes the moment. Something of that 

 feeling of exalted solitude entered into his life. 

 He stood firm and undazed come what might. 



