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In reading Novalis, it is hardly possible to discriminate between discourse and dreaming; his passion was for remote, never-experienced things "Ah, lonely stands, and merged in woe, Who loves the past with fervent glow!" His homesickness for the invisible world became an almost sensuous yearning for the joys of death. In the last volume of the same journal appeared his Hymns to Night.
If I say, therefore, that Shakespeare is the greatest of Intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it than he himself is aware of. Novalis beautifully remarks of him, that those Dramas of his are Products of Nature too, deep as Nature herself.
Nay; in genuine biographies I had read of the subtilizing or exalting influence of some diseases on the mental powers. Did not Novalis feel his inspiration intensified under the progress of consumption? When my mind had dwelt for some time on this blissful idea, it seemed to me that I might perhaps test it by an exertion of my will.
Carlyle refers to a remark of Novalis, that a man's self-trust is enormously increased the moment he finds that others believe in him. If the opposite remark be true if it be a fact that public disbelief weakens a man's force there is no calculating the amount of damage these twenty years of neglect may have done to Young's productiveness as an investigator.
Among German so-called mystics the one most nearly in accord with Carlyle was Novalis, who has left a sheaf of sayings as "There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man," "Who touches a human hand touches God" that especially commended themselves to his commentator.
It is not the romance of sentiment; nor that of incident, adventure, and character viewed under a worldly coloring: it has not the mystic and melodramatic bent belonging to Tieck and Novalis and Fouque. There are two things which radically isolate it from all these. The first is its quality of revived belief.
We conceive God as personal, just as we conceive ourselves personal. God is just as personal and as individual as we are; for what we call I is not our true I, but only its off glance. By NOVALIS
"Is not Belief the true god-announcing Miracle?" says Novalis. That Mahomet's whole soul, set in flame with this grand Truth vouchsafed him, should feel as if it were important and the only important thing, was very natural.
It became at last unreasonable to suppose that anything in the world would ever happen to Almayer and Nina. And yet something most unlikely to happen on the high seas was to wake them up from their state of suspended animation. What is it that Novalis says? "It is certain my conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it."
Novalis, I think, says that one's own thought gains quite infinitely in value as soon as one finds it shared by even one other human being. The saying has proved true, at least, to me. The morning after this paper was read, I received a book, "The Genesis of Species, by St.
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