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the " Sonata Appassionata " and " Cherry Ripe ; " 

 or between a grave-stone-cutter's cherub and the 

 Apollo Belvidere ; but the canons of art are none 

 the less acknowledged. While some there may 

 be, who, devoid of sympathy, are incapable of a 

 sense of duty ; but neither does their existence 

 affect the foundations of -morality. Such patho- 

 logical deviations from true manhood are merely 

 the halt, the lame, and the blind of the world of 

 consciousness; and the anatomist of the mind 

 leaves them aside, as the anatomist of the body 

 would ignore abnormal specimens. 



And as there are Pascals and Mozarts, Newtons 

 and Raffaelles, in whom the innate faculty for 

 science or art seems to need but a touch to spring 

 into full vigour, and through whom the human 

 race obtains new possibilities of knowledge and 

 new conceptions of beauty : so there have been 

 men of moral genius, to whom we owe ideals of 

 duty and visions of moral perfection, which 

 ordinary mankind could never have attained : 

 though, happily for them, they can feel the beauty 

 of a vision, which lay beyond the reach of their 

 dull imaginations, and count life well spent in 

 shaping some faint image of it in the actual world. 



