The Nuptial Flight 
seeks for conviction, while his researches 
even conduct him to the very reverse of 
that which he loves, he directs his conduct 
by the most humanly beautiful truth, and 
clings to the one that provisionally seems 
to be highest. All that may add to 
beneficent virtue enters his heart at once ; 
all that would tend to lessen it remaining 
there in suspense, like insoluble salts that 
change not till the hour for decisive ex- 
periment. He may accept an inferior 
truth, but before he will act in accord- 
ance therewith he will wait, if need be for 
centuries, until he perceive the connection 
this truth must possess with truths so 
infinite as to include and surpass all 
others. 
In a word, he divides the moral from 
the intellectual order, admitting in the for- 
mer that only which is greater and more 
beautiful than was there before. And 
blameworthy as it may be to separate the 
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