I believe that, though darkness lies round and about us seeking to solve such questions, a feeling of deep satisfaction in witnessing the adherence to Moral Rectitude, and of deep pain in witnessing the departure from it, are the necessary results of a moral sensibility; but taken in their elementary simplicity, they have, I think, a character distinct from those many other emotions which will necessarily blend with them, in the heart of one human being looking upon the actions of another--"because that we have all one human heart." TALBOYS. Who can doubt that Religion infuses power and exaltation into the Arts? The bare History teaches this. In Greece Poetry sang of Gods, and of Heroes, in whose transactions Gods moved. Sculpture moulded Forms which were attempted expressions of Divine Attributes. Architecture constructed Temples. _De facto_ the Grecian Arts rose out of Religion. And were not the same Arts, of revived Italy, religious? BULLER. They all require for their foundation and support a great pervading sympathy--some Feeling that holds a whole national breast. This is needed to munificently defraying the Costlier Arts--no base consideration at bottom. For it is _a_ life-bond of this life, that is freely dropped, when men freely and generously contribute their means to the honour of Religion. There is a sentiment in opening your purse. SEWARD. Yes, Buller--without that sentiment, no man can love noble Art. The true, deep, grand support of Genius is the confidence of universal sympathy. Homer sings because Greece listens. Phidias pours out his soul over marble, gold, and ivory, because he knows that at Olympia united Greece will wonder and will worship. Think how Poet is dumb and Sculptor lame, who foreknows that what he _would_ sing, what he _would_ carve, will neither be felt nor understood. BULLER. The Religion of a people furnishes the sympathy which both _pays and applauds_. TALBOYS. And Religion affords to the Artist in Words or Forms the highest Norms of Thought--sublime, beautiful, solemn--withal the sense of Aspiration--possibly of Inspiration. NORTH. And it guards Philosophy--and preserves it, by spiritual influence, from degradation worse than death. The mind is first excited into activity through the impressions made by external objects on the senses. The French metaphysicians--pretending to follow Locke--proceeded to discover in the mind a mere compound of Sensations, and of Ideas drawn from Sensations. Sensations, and Ideas that were the Relics of Sensations--nothing more. TALBOYS. And thus, sir, by degrees, the Mind appeared to them to be nothing else than a product of the Body--say rather a state of the Body. NORTH.