...correction of a false attitude struck in another. In "Empedocles on Etna," published in 1852, he * writes: "Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...gets no other light, Search he a thousand years." But in the following year he withdrew this volume from circulation, and issued a volume containing...

...verdict of immediate consciousness. TvS)6i, ffeavrov is the ouly ultimate method of a true psychology. " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself ! there ask what ails thee at that shrine ! " The exact problem before us, together with an attempted solution, is so well illustrated by Descartes...

...italics].23 That introspection promised such a state, Arnold already affirmed in Empedocles on Etna: Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years (1.2. 317-21). Buddhism does not purport to be a revelation but the result of Gautama Buddha's meditation....

...Let us see. Matthew Arnold was certainly directed by none of the dogmas of religion when he wrote : " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears ; Man gets no other light, Search lie :i thousand vetirs. Something about GeniuS; 207 Sink in thyself ! there ask What ails thee —...

...dogmas of religion when he wrote t " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with feaw ; Man gets no other light, Search he a, thousand years. Sink in thyself ! there ask What ails the©— at that shriae." He wrote this from the center. He knew the world was not yet ready for it,...

...have the truth!" they cry; And yet their oracle, Trumpet it as they will, is but the same as thine. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...thyself! there ask what ails thee, at that shrine! 2073 What makes thee struggle and rave? Why are men ill at ease? Tis that the lot they have Fails their...

...home ? In another place we trace the influence of Goethe again. and find the gist of the whole poem. " Once read thy own breast right And thou hast done...light Search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself, then ask what ails thee at that shrine." I have delayed too long perhaps upon those parts ol Empedocles...

...rest and satisfaction he finally sinks within himself. ' " Once read thy own breast aright And tin m hast done with fears. Man gets no other light Search...thyself, there ask what ails thee, at that shrine." "Sink in thyself," " Resolve to be thyself, and know that he who finds himself loses his misery." This...

...the majority of men, conscious of sin and weakness, must seem very cheerless and inadequate : — " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done...light, Search he a thousand years. Sink in thyself 1 then ask what ails thee, at that shrine ! " The world exists not to make us happy. We must be content...

...great world without us is to look within our own hearts, to know and follow their highest promptings. " Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. Man gets no other light, Lives he a thousand years." And it is just this doctrine, that a man's chief duty is to follow the...