That is to say, he knows the God-like and God-allied and God-tending in his nature. He knows his Nature as exalted—as capable for divine communions and influences, aspirations, joys, desires. And knowing this, he boldly cherishes these desires and joys—aspires to these communions. As Milton says, he is— “From thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven.” NORTH. But knowing himself, he knows himself weak—unable to create—unable to furnish his own good. Hence “But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends.” SEWARD. And why should self-knowledge educe _gratitude_ from dependence? NORTH. I imagine, because self-knowledge includes the distinct _intelligence_ of _his own good_. But he cannot know his own highest good—cannot really understand his happiness, and be ungrateful. How can you to the Giver of Love be ungrateful for the gift of Love?—if you know truly the happiness of love—_i. e._, know yourself as a Spirit endowed for loving—and know him for the giver? It would be a self-contradiction in Spirit. SEWARD. And why do you, _the_ self-knowing, adore and praise? I think that Milton expresses this— “Thither with hearts and hands and eyes, Directed in devotion to adore, Who made him chief Of all his works.” NORTH. As if the discernment of his own constitution as chief of creation peculiarly summoned him to acknowledge with adoration—_i. e._, with awful ecstasy of admiring—the Constitutor. Is it not a high, solemn, sublime, true thought, that Man’s discernment of his own exaltedness, immediately and with direct impulse, carries him God-ward—as on the summit of a high hill you are next heaven, or seem to be next it? TALBOYS. This passage beginning— “_There wanted_ yet the Master-work,” contains an undoubted imitation of Ovid. “Sanctius his animal, &c. _Deerat_.” And Ovid’s is surprisingly noble—for _him_—the _Sanctius_ alone is quite enough. That is the heathen contemplation of Man. How many of us know ourselves and our fellows as holy? Nevertheless, Milton makes that which was high and impassioned—logical, comprehensive, and sublime. SEWARD. Sanctity of Reason is hallowed and hallowing Intelligence. It is implied that in the best and truest actions of our understanding, there is an afflux of Deity, and that, as Bacon says, we are akin to God by our Spirits. NORTH. Well alluded to. TALBOYS.