mplaints, the
misgivings, the aspirations of our generation find in certain pages of
Mr. Greg's book a voice of mingled fervour and _recueillement_, a union
of contemplative reason with spiritual sensibility, which makes them one
of the best expressions of one of the highest moods of this bewildered
time. They are in the true key for religious or spiritual composition,
as Rousseau's Savoyard Vicar is; thought and emotion are fused without
the decorations of misplaced rhetoric. That meditations so stamped with
sincerity, and so honestly directed to the actual perplexities of
thoughtful people, should have met with wide and grateful acceptance, is
no more than might have been expected. Least of all can their fine
qualities be underrated even by those who, like the present writer,
believe that, ponder these great enigmas as we may, we shall never get
beyond Goethe's majestic psalm:--

Edel sey der Mensch,
Huelfreich und gut!
Denn das allein
Unterscheidet ihn
Von allen Wesen
Die wir kennen....

Denn unfuehlend
Ist die Natur:
Es leuchtet die Sonne
Ueber Boes' und Gute,
Und dem Verbrecher
Glaenzen, wie dem Besten,
Der Mond und die Sterne....

Nach ewigen, ehrnen
Grossen Gesetzen
Muessen wir alle
Unseres Daseyns
Kreise vollenden.

Nur allein der Mensch
Vermag das Unmoegliche;
Er unterscheidet
Waehlet und richtet
Er kann dem Augenblick
Dauer verleihen.

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