...or the genuine love of the true and beautiful. " The great secret of morals," says a late writer, " is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with others. A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in...

...which it coexists. The_great secret, of morals, js love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an1 identification of ourselves with the beautiful which...comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of -7 t » ' jenderinf Tt tlic receptacle nf nt lousanfl unapprereproduces all that it represents, and^rTe'Tm'p'SRona1QU...

...infinity in the immaterial one. Such ideas are, in some degree, developed in his poem entitled * " A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."—A Defence of Poeiry, " Heaven:" and when he makes one of the interlocutors exclaim, " Peace...

...great secret of morals," said one worthy to comment on such a doctrine, as he was its great exemplar, " is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an...exists in thought, action, or person not our own. Aman, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...

...•whose minds saw things in the same light in which they were viewed by himself. Shelley says, that a man, " to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...and pleasures of his species must become his own." Now, the pains and pleasures of the species Wordsworth desires to make his own ; but in making them...

...desire for knowledge, he assuredly believed that hereafter, as now, he would form a portion of that * "A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...and pleasures of his species must become his own." — A Defence of Poetry. whole — and a jjortion less imperfect, less suffering, than the shackles...

...exalted content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it coexists. The ;reat secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves »ith the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly jowl,...

...content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it coexists. The great-secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature,...action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly pood, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and...

...our own impel us to regard them ? To quote again from Shelley's masterly " Defence of Poetry :" — "The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out...many others : the pains and pleasures of his species, # Properly speiikinc, wisdom includes goodness; — for the pood alone are wise ; bat the word has...

...those whose minds saw things in the same light in which they were viewed by himself. Shelley says, that a man " to be greatly good, must imagine intensely...and pleasures of his species must become his own." Now, the pains and pleasures of the species Wordsworth desires to make his own ; but in making them...