Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) LIFE WITHOUT AND LIFE WITHIN; OR, REVIEWS, NARRATIVES, ESSAYS, AND POEMS. BY MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI, AUTHOR OF "WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY," "AT HOME AND ABROAD," "ART, LITERATURE, AND THE DRAMA," ETC. EDITED BY HER BROTHER, ARTHUR B. FULLER. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by ARTHUR B. FULLER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts [Illustration: colophon] _Cambridge: Presswork by John Wilson and Son._ PREFACE. Every person, who can be said to really live at all, leads two lives during this period of mortal existence. The one life is outward; it is passed in reading the thoughts of others; in contemplating the struggles, the defeats, the victories, the virtues, the sins, in fine, all things which make the history of those who surround us; and in gazing upon the structures which Art has reared, or paintings which she hath inscribed on the canvas; or looking upon the grand temple of the material universe, and beholding scenes painted by a hand more skilled, more wondrous, in its creative power, than ever can be human hand. The life passed in examining what other minds have produced, or living other men's lives by looking at their deeds, or in any way discerning what addresses the bodily eye or the physical ear,--this is often wise and well; essential, indeed, to any inner life; but it is outward, not self-centred, not the product of our own individual natures.