"Brow-furrowed old age, youth's hollow cheek,—
Diseased in the body, sick in soul,
Pinched poverty, satiate wealth,—your whole
Array of despairs,"D
D: Ibid.
still, without them, the best is impossible. They are the conditions of the moral life, which is essentially progressive. They are the consequences of the fact that man has been "startled up"
"by an Infinite
Discovered above and below me—height
And depth alike to attract my flight,