us. I believe that in these
matters I feel all that you do, but not with the same intensity. To
adore is most natural to the mind contemplating beauty, might, and
majesty beyond its own powers; to implore is most natural to the
heart oppressed with suffering, or agitated with hopes that it
cannot accomplish, or fears from which it cannot escape. The
difference between natural and revealed religion is that the one
worships the loveliness and power it perceives, and the other the
goodness, mercy, and truth in which it believes. The one prays for
exemption from pain and enjoyment of happiness for body and mind in
this present existence; the other for deliverance from spiritual
evils, or the possession of spiritual graces, by which the soul is
fitted for that better life toward which it tends....

I do not think "Juliet" has written to you hitherto, and I am
rather affronted at your calling me so. I have little or no
sympathy with, though much compassion for, that Veronese young
person.... There is but one sentiment of hers that I can quote with
entire self-application, and that is--

"I have no joy of this contract to-night;
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden."

In spite of which the foolish child immediately secures her lover's
word, appoints the time for meeting, and makes every arrangement
for following up the declaration she thought too sudden by its as
sudden execution. Poor Juliet! I am very sorry for her, but do not
like to be called after her, and do not think I am like her. I have
been working very hard every day since you left Bristol (my belief
is that Juliet was very idle). I am sorry to say I find my playing
very hard work; but easy work, if there is such a thing, would not
be best for me just now.

Yours ever,
F. A. K.

_Sunday, Exeter._--To church with Dall and my father, a blessing
that I can never enjoy in London, where he is all but stared out of
countenance if he shows his countenance in a church, and it
requires more devotion to the deed than I fear he possesses to
encounter the annoyance attendant upon it. We heard an excellent
sermon, earnest, sober, simple, which I was especially grateful for
on my father's account. Wo