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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...It would become incompatible with his organization, or rather it would transmute it, and the process of that transmutation to the senses of other men would be called death.--Even as to caterpillars; in all probability the Vol. i. N caterpillar dies, and he either does not see, which is most probable, or at all events he does not see the connection between the cater- pillar and the butterfly, the beautiful Psyche of the Greeks. Those who in this life love in perfection--if such there be--in proportion as their love has no struggles, see God darkly and through a veil: --for when duty and pleasure are abso- lutely coincident, the very nature of our orga- nization necessitates that duty, will be contem- plated as the symbol of pleasure, instead of pleasure being (as in a future life we have faith it will be) the symbol of duty. This then is the distinction between human and an- gelic happiness. Human happiness--humanly happy I call him, who in enjoyment finds his duty; angelically happy he, who seeks and finds his duty in enjoyment. Happiness in general may be defined--not the aggregate of pleasurable sensations, for this is either a dangerous error and the creed of sensualists, or else a mere translation or wordy paraphrase --but the state of that person who, in order to enjoy his nature in its highest manifestations of conscious feeling, has no need of doing wrong, and who in order to do right is under no necessity of abstaining from enjoyment. On the arrival of the new secretary at Malta, Mr. Coleridge left it, September 27, 1805, and after a day's voyage, arrived at Syracuse. He remained in Sicily a short time only, for he was eager to visit the eternal city (Rome, ) in which he staid some...

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