292 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



disciples that the body, as well as the soul, 

 shall live again; but the body glorified, made 

 perfect and beautiful beyond human power of 

 thought, to be wedded to the soul purified 

 beyond human power of understanding. Is it 

 not strange that this solitary questioner, long- 

 ing and praying for a deeper and fuller under- 

 standing a fuller soul should also have 

 arrived at the perception of the wonderful truth 

 that the perfect soul demands the perfect 

 body ? In his mind there are no echoes 

 ringing of Paul's great Vision the whole of 

 his old creed, all of it, has fallen from him 

 and is lost: it is his own Vision granted to 

 himself. How ? After long and solitary medi- 

 tation on the hillside, as in the old times great 

 Visions came to those who fasted in their 

 lonely cells and solitary caves. Great thoughts 

 come not to those w T ho seek them not. The 

 mind which would receive them must be first 

 prepared. The example of Jefferies, whose 

 great thoughts only came to him after long 

 years of meditation apart from man, may make 

 us understand the Visions which used to reward 

 the monk, the fakir, the hermit of the lonely 

 laura. 



