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The better life! Possibly, it would hardly look so now; it is enough

if it looked so then The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the

doubt whether oneto prove one's self a fool; the

truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdoht to be resisted, and when to be obeyed

Yet, after all, let us acknowledge it wiser, if not acious, to

follow out one's daydreah, if the

vision have been worth the having, it is certain never to be

consummated otherwise than by a failure And what of that? Its

airiest fragments, impalpable as they may be, will possess a value that

lurks not in the most ponderous realities of any practicable scheme

They are not the rubbish of the mind Whatever else Ih to forenerous hopes of the world's

destiny--yes!--and to do what in me lay for their acco a warar, and travelling far beyond the strike of city clocks,

through a drifting snowstorh the storreed to be of the number, was accidentally

delayed, and set forth at a later hour alone As we threaded the

streets, I res on either side seehty hearts found barely rooh to throb between them

The snowfall, too, looked inexpressibly