I feel perfectly indifferent as to which horn of this alternative you may patronise. They both equally make for _me_. Nor do I want _either_, otherwise than to show, that else the Archbishop is already of _my way of thinking_, and _restrained_ from _avowing_ it, or _unwillingly_ involved in a _contradictory nodus_, from a partial succumbing to education! With this I leave Enoch! I have hitherto done without him! I shall continue still to do so! But while bidding _adieu_, I must disburthen myself of the sentiments which his merits have inspired, and that after a _very short personal familiarity_. Thou art, then, a GOODLY and a WISE book, Enoch, stored with _many_ and _recondite truths_, but “_few_ they be who _find_” them. Better for thee it were, however, that thou hadst slept a little longer in thy _tranquil_ retirement, than obtrude thyself, _unappreciated_, upon an _ungenial_ world--a cold, a calculating, an adamantine world--who fancy they know _everything_, but who, in truth, know _nothing_--to meet with nothing but their _scorn_! It is true, Enoch, that thy face hath been tarnished by many a blemish! And that the hand of time hath dealt with thee, as it doth with the other works of man! Yet, despite of the _curtailments_ thus sustained, and the _exotics_ incorporated, thy magnificent ruin still holds within it some _gleams_, which to the _initiated_ and the _sympathetic_ afford delight and gratification. --------“Sweet as the _ecstatic_ bliss Of _souls_ that by _intelligence_ converse!” Doubtless, reader, you are acquainted with the Gospel of St. John?--and you have a heart?--and you have emotions?--and you have sensibilities?--and you have intellect? Well, then, tell me frankly, have not these all been brought into requisition, at the metaphysical _sublimity_ and the oriental _pathos_ of the opening part of that production? “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him; and the world _knew Him not_. He came unto _His own_, and _His own_ received Him not.”[548] You surely cannot suppose this said in reference to the _late incarnation_! Were it so, why should the Evangelist deliver himself in terms so pointedly allusive to _distant times_? The interval between Christ’s disappearance and St. John’s registration was but as _yesterday_, and therefore the latter, when inculcating the _divinity_ of the _former_, upon the belief of his countrymen, who were all contemporaries, as well of one as of the other, need not advertise them of an addition, of which they were themselves cognisant. But to illustrate to you as _light_, that it was not the _recent_ manifestation that was meant by the above text, he tells us in the sequel, when expressly narrating _this_ latter fact, that “the _Logos_ was made flesh and dwelt _among us_”;[549] where you perceive that “_dwelling among us_” is made a _distinct thing from_, and _posterior in eventuation to “coming unto His own,”_ as before recorded![550]