SHAKESPEARE AND PSYCHOGNOSIS 33 



Ferdinand and Miranda are types of lovers of the best class, in whom a degree 

 of natural warmth and passion is blended harmoniously with the finest spiritual 

 singleness. Ferdinand is more selfish and strong than Miranda, Miranda more 

 clinging and sjmtipathetic than her lover. They stand on the same plane of civilization 

 as Antonio and Gonzalo; but, while the latter pair illustrate the extreme types of 

 selfishness and unselfishness, and are divided by the whole sweep of social differences, 

 the lovers illustrate that mutual give-and-take which gives them a kind of unity in 

 their relation or, as the poetic philosopher has said, "Reason in itself confounded, 

 saw division grow together;" and, in another place, "Number there in love was 

 slain;" and yet again, "Property was there appalled, that the self was not the same." 



