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But the laugh could not be very loud or very long, since it took twelve years, as Mr. Higginson tells us, to sell five hundred copies. It was a good deal like Keats's "doubtful tale from fairy-land Hard for the non-elect to understand." The same experience had been gone through by Wordsworth. "Whatever is too original," says De Quincey, "will be hated at the first.
What was, was right all as it should be; elect, or non-elect, according to the fore-knowledge, it was well. Sucking in their theology with their mothers' milk, and cradled in sectarian traditions, they loved justice before mercy, and seldom walked humbly before God.
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