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Let us own, however, that one-idea'd people are often amusing as well as mischievous or rather, when not mischievous. The rapt devotion they pay to their idola specûs oscillates between the sublime and the ridiculous. We have all seen such people, and alternately admired and laughed at them. We have all witnessed or read pleasant illustrations of their doings.
Answer: By learning what our real necessities are, and limiting our sense of want by such knowledge. Otherwise there is little hope for us; for, as soon as we admit imaginary and factitious needs, we become the slaves of mere fancy, the sport of mere human opinion, and devoid of all true dignity. How sublime, as compared with the ordinary condition of men, is the possibility suggested by Burke!
Those English gentlemen went about their jobs of life and death with the same detached coolness as if their hunters were being saddled, or they were waiting for the referee's whistle in Rugby football. Their attitude was infernally exasperating; yet you couldn't help taking off your hat to their sublime nerve and indifference. I overheard a typical remark when matters were in this critical state.
The Kadosch of the Scotch Rite, the Sublime Chosen Master of the Royal Arch, the Commander of the White and Black Eagle of the rite of Herodom, the perfectly initiated Grand Inspector of the Scotch Philosophical Rite, the Elect Brother of the Johannite Rite of Zinnendorf, and the Brother of the Red Cross of Swedenborg, a thousand other dignitaries of a thousand illuminations, gather in the Grand Masonic Temple, and, as the Doctor gravely tells us, are employed in cursing Catholicity.
It sobers and clarifies human thinking a little, perhaps, to reflect on how thin a line separates the sublime and the ridiculous, the saint and the sensualist, the martyr and the fool, the genius and the freak.
As Grant well says in his History: "This may be justly asserted to be one of the most sublime truths which astronomical science has hitherto disclosed to the researches of the human mind." Latterly the best work on double stars has been done by S. W. Burnham, at the Lick Observatory.
There is Faust, the mysterious and sublime Faust who sings the horrible disgust and nothingness of everything; and this crowd are asking themselves anxiously whether Montrose's voice has not changed!"
The common run of people wouldn't understand all this in the least." "I want to hear all I want to enter into all your thoughts, David. I have always known that those who devote themselves to the study of what is sublime and beautiful suffer proportionately from the squalor of actual facts."
A sublime man; who alone in those dark days had saved his crown of spiritual manhood, escaping from the black materialisms and revolutionary deluges with 'God, Freedom, Immortality, still his; a king of men.
Infernal world, and thou, profoundest Hell; Receive thy new possessor! one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time; The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell. . . . Here at least We shall be free," etc. The reply of Medea in the tragedy belongs also to this order of the sublime.
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