8 PREFACE. 
to unite their discoveries with ours ; for it is in the 
power only of these sweetest sentiments of our na- 
ture to bring to perfection what they have so beauti- 
fully invented, the mystical, yet pleasing, links of 
intelligence, that bind soul to soul, in the tender and 
quiet harmony of the one, or in the more impas- 
sioned felicity of the other. 
By way of conclusion, it may be proper to remark, 
that though this work is founded on a small French 
volume, yet, from the alterations which have been 
introduced, it cannot, strictly speaking, be called a 
translation. 
