In Thought, though that be but alone,
Where only all our hope is known,

The thought, the mind that is our own.

Mine be the part that thus I find
For my spirit," for my mind."
Soul and mind may all abound :
The glorious universe around.

It is the mind that lives: the mind
Has but to seek that it may find.

The world lies wide before me: high,

But not beyond the earnest eye,

The worlds of heaven are o'er the sky-
The world of men, of human life,

Passions, and delight, and strife!
Where Alcibiades was one,

And where Napoleon's deeds were done;
And where there will be once at last
That which is not of the past;

(5) Without apprehension of any such scientification as that in Plutarch On the Face in the Moon, or as any of all the pneumatologies so richly accumulated by Montaigne,* it may be conceived that there is here and elsewhere a studied distinctness of expression.

* -"mais de celle qui nos appartient, que nos debvons mieulx cognoistre," etc. down to "Voyla les belles et certaines instructions qui nos tirons de la science humaine, sur le subject de nostre ame."-Essais, II, xix, Apologie de Raymond de Sebonde; vol. II, p. 341-62.

Days, and deeds, and things, and thought, Now in spirit to be wrought

The world of nature!-There are given
Flowers on earth and stars in heaven.
There is glory in the might,
And all beauty is delight.

I see it; and I seek to see
Whatsoever most may be

For the thought that is of me,
Thought of all that is around-

Heaven's and Newton's depth profound,

Many wonders, many powers,

Systems, suns, and worlds, and flowers-,

Thought of what there is most real,
Thought how Herschel knows to feel;

How he may most achieve and best
Whose thought-forth soul is well possess'd.

Past the vision time of youth,

That gloom'd a shadow o'er the truth.

Past the time when, as I rais'd

My opening glance and dimly gaz'd,
I could but think, I could but see,
All overwhelming mystery-

Even as all that seems to be

May seem but unreality,

Only to varying senses shown

In varying seemings, none its own—;
Inexplicably schem'd relation;
Inextricable complication;
Interminably wrought causation,
Traceless, whencesoe'er it be,
Sumless, whencesoe'er we see :
InterwovenR all, and wrought
In system never to be thought-
So vast, so subtile; mind and might;
All sumless, searchless, infinite-;
Whirling, as in ceaseless strife,
Round and through the human life,
Brain and heart and spirit, till

Surging on the soul and will:

(6) The idea archetypal of this expression seems to have been

peculiarly familiar to Goethe:

"Wenn die Natur des Fadens ew'ge Länge,

Gleichgültig drehend, auf die Spindel zwingt,"

Faust (Vorspiel auf dem Theater).

"Wie Alles sich zum Ganzen webt,

Eins in dem andern wirkt und lebt!" Ib.

"Ein wechselnd Weben,

Ein glühend Leben,

So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit,

Und wirke der Gottheit lebendiges Kleid." Ib.

"Und drängt nicht Alles

Nach Haupt und Herzen dir,

Und webt in ewigem Geheimniss

Unsichtbar sichtbar neben dir ?" Ib.

Dark alike the mystery
Of Being, of all entity,

And the every truth whereby

Things are such in quality;

And that which seems the most to be-
The Mind, the Sum, the Energy?—

(7) 'EVTEλÉXεia. "Thatigkeit, Wirksamkeit, actus, überh. das wirkliche Thätig-und Vorhandenseyn im Gegens. des blossen Vermögens und Könnens, der dúvaus, potentia, zuerst v. Aristot.", etc.-Passow, Handwörterbuch der Griechischen Sprache,

S. V.

Upon such a word it would be somewhat extravagant to compile a note. But see Arist. Пɛpì Yuxñs, I, i, 1-5, etc. Mɛrà rà Quoià, III, iv, 28; VIII, viii, 11; X, ix, 3, 4; comparing IIɛpì Tevéσews Kai PƐopãs, I, v, 7; Diogenes Laertius, V, 32, 33; Meibom. Amst. 1692, and the notes of Aldobrandini; Cicero, Tusc. Quæst. I, x; Facciolati Lexicon, s. v. Taylor's Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle,* book III, chap. iv, p. 418, note.

* "A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, in four books. In which his principal Physical and Metaphysical Dogmas are unfolded; and it is shown, from indubitable evidence, that his Philosophy has not been accurately known since the destruction of the Greeks. The insufficiency also of the Philosophy that has been substituted by the Moderns for that of Aristotle, is demonstrated. By Thomas Taylor." 4to. Lond. 1812. The title of this work, which is indeed an extraordinary one, and probably little known, is characteristic, but cannot suggest an adequate idea of the ludicrous extravagance of the book itself; the ultra-metaphysical unreality and verbalism, and, almost above all, the lofty, solemn arrogance of the author; who (with certainly a vast stock of Platonic metaphysics, infinitely involved, and overwhelmingly, because so vaguely, abstruse, a certain quantity of mathematics* of a peculiar quality, and a very meta

* See particularly the note (book IV, chap. i, p. 458) in which he speaks of Berkeley's Analyst (which he calls the "Analysist") as having never been properly answered (and perhaps the investigations of D'Alembert,

Darkest, wildest mystery:

Faint, fleet shadows for the theme,

physical idea of science) at once resolutely and deliberately, or, rather, with contemptuous confidence, undertakes to overthrow Bacon and Newton, and the principle of inductive philosophy. Of course he fully succeeds in satisfying himself of his achievement. Yet, it remains to be remarked, this undoubtedly extraordinary work has some farther merit beyond that of being a fund of constant amusement and an example well to be contrasted with results of that great modern philosophy which the author thinks that he opposes. There is in it much that is worth proper study: much of the Plato and Aristotle being still available; though the author himself probably soon became inconvertible into anything better than a mere verbalist-metaphysician, incapable of conceiving the absolute truth of real science, the tone and feeling of its real votaries, or even of appreciating the more literally practical results of scientific study. It might also be observed that there is reason in the purpose which Mr. Taylor seems to have had so much in view,—that of inducing absolute study of Aristotle's philosophical writings, and in the Greek itself. It is to be apprehended that such absolute study of Aristotle's Greek† is more unusual than may be imagined. Anything like an adequate edition of Aristotle's scientific works, such as might be furnished by one of consummate ability, possessing general learning, critical skill and scientific attainments, all in an eminent degree, has never yet been even heard of.

Mr.

Lagrange, Carnot, and Woodhouse, are not to be considered answers to Berkeley); and propounds the doctrine (published in his Elements of the true Arithmetic of Infinites), that in every infinite series of terms, whether integral or fractional, the last term (i.e. the greatest or the least term) multiplied by the number of terms, is equal to the sum of the series; which depends on admitting that the number of terms in an infinite series cannot be greater than 1+1+1+1, etc. ad infinitum, viz. than Taylor proceeds, "I rejoice to find as the result of this discovery, that it affords a most splendid instance of the absurdity which may attend reasoning by induction from parts to wholes, or from wholes to parts, when the wholes are themselves infinite." Preface to the treatise, Elements of the true Arithmetic of Infinites, annexed to Mr. Taylor's translation of Aristotle's IIɛpì 'Aróμwv гpaμμŵv, in vol. VII of his Aristotle (9 volumes, 4to. only 50 copies printed: price 471.5s.), and Dissertation, as above, p. 458.

†The following passage occurs in an Introductory Essay in the stereotype edition of Bacon (Lond. 1837), vol. 1, p. xlii: "There is something extremely ludicrous in the assertion, that by reason of his premature despatch on his travels, Plato and Aristotle were sealed books to him" (Bacon) "in the originals. The late Mr. Coleridge has hazarded this

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