Baffled, what good began
Ends evil on every side."A
A: Reverie—Asolando.
Thus, the conclusion to which knowledge inevitably leads us is that mere power rules.
"No more than the passive clay
Disputes the potter's act,
Could the whelmed mind disobey
Knowledge, the cataract."B
B: Ibid.
But if the intellect is thus overwhelmed, so as to be almost passive to the pessimistic conclusion borne in upon it by "resistless fact," the heart of man is made of another mould. It revolts against the conclusion of the intellect, and climbs