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private function of an individual will, but the world utters a sound by his lips. He who doth a just action seeth therein nothing of his own, but an inconceivable nobleness attaches to it, because it is a dictate of the general mind. We have no idea of power so simple and so entire as this. It is the basis of thought, it is the basis of being. Compare all that we call ourselves, all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep or moral nature in which we lie, and our private good becomes an impertinence, and we take part with hasty shame against our selves: ---

"High instincts, before which our mortal nature Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet the master-light of all our seeing, Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence, truths that wake To perish never."

14. Where but in the intuitions which are vouchsafed us from within, shall we learn the Truth ? Faithless, faithless, we fancy that with the dust we depart and are not, and do not know that the law and the perception of the law are at last one; that only as much as the law enters