idea of love through all its gradations, down to simple preference, we shall have traversed a region comprising every impulse by which our nature is capable of being influenced. But in addition to the most extensive signification of mind and heart, soul obtains a character more dignified and profound, from being associated with the principle of life-with man's moral responsibility—and with eternity. In examining these few words we are struck with the idea, of how much they would lose in beauty and interest by being confined to their literal and absolute signification; and just in the same proportion would our intellectual attainments and pursuits be robbed of their ornament and charm, by being separated from the poetry of life. END OF VOL. I. STEVENS AND PARDON, PRINTERS, |