Was less upraised in spirit than abashed;

Shrinking from admonition, like a man

Who feels that to exhort is to reproach.

Yet not to be diverted from his aim,

The Sage continued:—

"For that other loss,

The loss of confidence in social man,

By the unexpected transports of our age

Carried so high, that every thought, which looked

Beyond the temporal destiny of the Kind,