The Nuptial Flight 
will whisper to himself that this ideal 
has perhaps been formed at too great a 
distance from the enormous mass whose 
diverse beauty it would fain represent. 
He has, hitherto, legitimately feared that 
the attempt to adapt his morality to that 
of nature would risk the destruction of 
what was her masterpiece. But to-day 
he understands her a little better; and 
from some of her replies, which, though 
still vague, reveal an unexpected breadth, 
he has been enabled to seize a glimpse of 
a plan and an intellect vaster than could 
be conceived by his unaided imagination ; 
wherefore he has grown less afraid, nor 
feels any longer the same imperious need 
of the refuge his own special virtue and 
reason afford him. He concludes that 
what is so great could surely teach noth- 
ing that would tend to lessen itself. He 
wonders whether the moment may not 
have arrived for submitting to a more 
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