Why then conceal, that, when the simply[269] good
In timid selfishness withdrew, I sought
Other support, not scrupulous whence it came;
And, by what compromise it stood, not nice?
Enough if notions seemed to be high-pitched,
And qualities determined.—Among men
So charactered did I maintain a strife[270]
Hopeless, and still more hopeless every hour;
But, in the process, I began to feel
That, if the emancipation of the world