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    A tfEW VIEW bF " THE FILGRIMlS . " V ' 4 Novali s was one of the most enthusiastic and imaginative of Oerman students . He had been educated in solitiide , and

    had spent all his youth in fknt ^ stm speculations . On every subject he had singular and original ideas , and was full of plans for the perfectibility of human nature . According to him a new era had arrived—a hew religion was to be proclaimed —a new race was being born . He was fond of indulging in prophecies and presentiments on the anticipation of

    portentous changes , and in wholesale denunciation of the Past . In these respects he resembled the modern enthusiast of most European nations ; but he had mental and moral Equalities peculiar to his Getman nature . The German ^ are a mystical people themselves , and hence , in their eyes , vtll is clothed in mystery . The unvarying repetition of the operations of

    nature , and the sameness of the great Sttopid-face of ordinary society , have lulled most of us into a . great indifference respecting the cause and object of every thing around us . But this very regularity and monotony is whut the Germans gaze at with wondeT and astonishment . For them , silence is " of more -avail " th&n ail the thunders of the universe ; the orderly

    frame-work of every-day life , more imposing than vast Revolutions ; the peace of the green field , arid the calm of the wide sea , more powerful than storms and earthquakes . "N ovalis in his solitude led , perhaps , a busier life than that of many a man of action , in the throng of violent deeds . Besides his philanthropic d&y-dreaftis , and the plans in which his imagination revelled for executing them , he W&s fond of

    holdlag a kind of active commune with surroundkig nature . He interrogated her every feature , and then wholl y surrendered himself to all the impressions which she invariably afforded him . The different moods of tnind with whirfh , in her different forms , she invested him , he figured to himself were spirits which she infused , into his nature , to temper his character to theirs . Thus , in forest solitude ( W&Ideinstirfttceit ) he was half

    conscious of the present of & nyfchph , atrayed in a chaplet of leaves , whose quiet melancholy seemed to impart itself to all Ilia ideas . When wandering through vineries and fertile rallies , peace and plenty swept argund him , and filled him with such abundance of luxurious ideas , that he too felt ripe bnd full * and swelling with maturity . On the wild and desoll * te heath be felt the close embrace of a sister , blighted and i forlorn * Amongst mountains and raiaes he tvfrs visited by inore

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    tft 6 The JfogttMi on tht Rhine .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 686, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/34/