e do things we are ashamed of;
dropping at last like the animals, with alarm that we die."

"Look, off into the heart of It! the heart of It! beyond there!" he
exclaimed, stretching his arm. "Forget our courtyard! Nay, returning
there, let us remember that this infinite ocean is above it--a boundless
sea beneath and around, an unknown universe within. Take in this scene
and feel the rich thrills of its majesty stir you. You are of it; you
came out of it; it is your mother, father, lover; it will never let you
die; that heart of it to which your utmost straining cannot pierce, was
once and will again be known to you. Its beauty caresses your soul from
another world, and it is Love Divine which moves those stars.[J] Your
own sweet passion, Chamilly, is the child of that divine Love, and in it
you mount towards the heavens, and yearn as by inspiration, for a
mysterious ideal existence? The poets and romancers lightly say of it "a
divine power:" they think they say a metaphor--a lie; but I tell you it
is true! May it assist you to live the life of the universe."

[Footnote J: Dante--Divina Commedia.]

"Each man," he cried, "who pursues his highest is a prophet! Ever there
is an inward compulsion in our race to press on, and we hear the heroes
of the front as they fall, crying 'Forward, forward, forward, forward,
forward!'"

While he spoke, for he said much besides, many of the lights were
disappearing, we seemed to be being left alone, and the church-towers of
the city chorussed the hour of ten.

CHAPTER XLIII.

HAVILAND'S PRINCIPLE

The final step in the progression of influences was, strange to say, a
dream. Our residence was then on Grosvenor street,--a Florid Gothic one
after the model of Desdemona's House in Venice. My own little room was
fitted up in a Moorish fashion.

After the scene with Quinet on Prospect Point, I sat up till a late
hour, for I found a letter from Grace, telling jocularly of their
journey just commenced in the delightful Old World, and seriously of
Alexandra's ambitions. I sat thinking with my arms folded on the table
till I fell asleep. Then I felt at first that I was lifted up on the
Mountain again, and leaving that presently, was carried out into space
far away among the stars. Phosphorescent mists and cloud masses passed
over the region, and among these appeared various figures, the last of
which was, that of a certain old Professor of ours.

The most apparently dissimilar t