body and mind. Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, “Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped over me without making any demand on my moral or physical nature.” The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune, and so converts the sufferer into a spectator and his pain into poetry. It yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy, solemn and soft with music, and garnished with rich dark pictures. But higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are not distinguished from each other, and both ravish us into a region whereinto these passionate clouds of sorrow cannot rise. FOOTNOTES: [5] _The Dial_, vol. i. p. 137. [6] _The Dial_, vol. ii. p. 262. [7] _The Dial_, vol. iii. p. 77. [8] _The Dial_, vol. iii. p. 123. [9] _The Dial_, vol. iii. p. 511. [10] _The Dial_, vol. iv. p. 96. [11] _The Dial_, vol. iv. p. 262. [12] From the course on “Human Life,” read in Boston, 1839-40. Published in _The Dial_, vol. iv. p. 515. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. Pg. 100: ‘χόσμος’ replaced by ‘Κόσμος’. Pg. 211: ‘ageeably entertained’ replaced by ‘agreeably entertained’.