...stormfully across the astonished Earth, then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled and her seas filled up in our passage; can the Earth,...are alive? On the hardest adamant some footprint of ours is stamped in; the last rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van. But whence? —...

...stormfully across the astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage: can the Earth,...alive? On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped-in; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van. But whence? — O Heaven,...

...the moving picture of mankind ever on the march from the unknown origin to the unknown fate : — " on the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped...the host will read traces of the earliest Van,"— on barrows of the downs and moors, and in gravel of cave-floor and river-drift. But History is more...

...stormfully across the astonished earth, then plunge again into the Inane. " Earth's mountains are leveled, and her seas filled up in our passage. "Can the earth,...rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van " Bat whence ! Oh, Heaven ! whither? " And now, having given a taste of Emerson's and Carlyle's poorest...

...across the astonished eartii, and plunge again into the inane. Earth's mountains are levelled and lier seas filled up in our passage. Can the earth, which...vision, resist spirits which have reality and are alive 1 On the hardest adamant, some footstep of us is stamped in ; the last rear of the host will read traces...

...him, but are in very deed ghosU ! ... So has it been from the beginning, so will it be to the end. On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped...host will read traces of the earliest van. But whence ? "Whither? Sense knows not; Faith knows not; only that it is from mystery to mystery, from God to...

...stormfully across the astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage: can the Earth,...alive? On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped-in; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van. But whence? - O Heaven,...

...stormfully across the astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage: can the Earth,...alive? On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped-in; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van. But whence? — O Heaven,...

...stormfully across the astonished earth, then plunge again into the inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up in our passage. Can the earth,...will read traces of the earliest van. But whence? Oh, Heaven! whither? Sense knows not, faith knows not, only that it is through mystery to mystery,...

...the unleashed imagination. Carlyle is breathtaking on this point: "Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage: can the Earth,...resist Spirits which have reality and are alive?" (200). (Not until Wallace Stevens' "insolid billowing of the solid" will such romantic rhetoric meet...