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it ; see if it is akin to that which is of permanent 

 value in the world's best thought. A French critic 

 tells a story of a man who sat cool and unmoved 

 under a sermon that made the people about him 

 shed torrents of tears, and who excused himself by 

 saying, " I do not belong to this parish." One's 

 tastes must be broader than one's parish. I suppose 

 any of our religious brethren would feel a little shy 

 of weeping in the church of a religious denomination 

 not his own. Our religion is no more emancipated 

 than are our tastes. Lowell says there are born 

 Popists and born Wordsworthians ; but the more 

 these types can get out of their limitations and ap- 

 preciate one another, the more they are emancipated. 



