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up the whole but I could not find one Now, I have tracked down my hunt I find it in Prof. James' 'Varieties" The Gifford lecturer classifies the man of Rup type with healthy-mindedness His remarks are illuminating "In many persons, happiness is congenital and irreclaimable. "Cosmic emotion' inevitably takes in them the form of enthusiasm and freedom I speak not only of those who are animally happy We find such persons in every age passionately flinging themselves upon their sense of the goodness of life in spite of the hardships of their own condition, and in spite of the sinjster theologies into which they may be born"
They soon ally themselves with the good and the tender they find anywhere, and the good and the
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c episod upon them in return Our child-like Rup came under such influence at this time It melted the 'Iron' in his soul It deflected him from the downward path, he had hithero pursued, and led him, as by a gentle touch up the Mount of Ascension, that was so far hidden in cloud Prof William James helps us here again with an illuminating passage to sympathetically understand this obscure phase of his headlong career 6 "It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of this sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds
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