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exclaim against them as false, dangerous, and deserving of 

 punishment. Every abuse attempted to be reformed is the 

 patrimony of those who have more influence than the reformers. 

 He who would be great must go alone ; he must not stop to 

 curry favour here and there with every commentator. The 

 hope to please all is the diseased yearning of a cold, selfish, 

 and contracted heart." 



Ent. Does Bacon say all that? 



Erro. I won't be certain that the passage is entirely 

 Bacon's, but I think you will find some of the ideas in his 

 works. 



Ent. Rosy ! why always use the language of others ? 



Erro. Because it is less trouble to employ the words of 

 others, than to fit expressions to ray own ideas ; and because 

 I can think nothing, express nothing, that has not before been 

 thought and expressed far more beautifully : but I mean to 

 copy you, in being original. [? Ed.] I feel that, as the flame 

 of that candle rises to the cigar which you are holding over it, 

 so does my soul grow upwards to the stature you wish it to 

 attain. 



Ent. Change the subject, Roey, my heart is overflowing. 

 How truly it is said, that the heart is ever ready to open to 

 the heart that opens in return ! 



Erro. Changed it is. You are wrong in the honey-bee 

 paper, which you wrote for me, in saying, that our love of nature 

 is less intense when the other love is gone. I once thought 

 as you say, but I don't now. Love, commonly so called, is 

 a meteor's light ; the love of nature is like the light of a 



Polar day, which will not see 

 A sunset till its summer's gone : 



it is a flame, only dying with our reason ; the other only lives 

 till our reason awakes, and tells us that what we love in 

 another is only the fancied image of our own mind : — 



Of its own image is the mind diseased. 



I love nature more and more, man less and less ; yet I do love 

 mankind, though I would rather live in a desert than with the 

 common run of men. Oh ! I can recollect with intense 

 pleasure the scenes we visited together in Wales, when, as 



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