The very gods of all these countries have perished, but the mortals who bent the knee before them still survive in the immortality of our common nature,—in that universal interest which gives to us a sort of intellectual existence in scenes and times the most remote, and makes the thoughts and emotions of others as it were a part of our own being,—uniting the past, the present, and the future, and blending man with man wherever he is to be found.
Footnotes
[87] Darwin's Botanic Garden, Canto III. v. 353–4, and 357–360.
[88] Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind, chap. i. sect. 5.
[89] Epilogue to the Satires, Dial. II. v. 73.
[90] Three Dialogues, &c. p. 109–110.
[91] The substance of this reference occurs in the Eleventh Anniversary Discourse,—Works, v. i. p. 165–6. 4to. Edit.
[LECTURE XXIV.]
THE SAME SUBJECT, CONTINUED.