had Adam conquered the anguish of
separation as a pure sacrifice of obedience to God, his reward would have
been the pardon and reconciliation of Eve, together with her restoration
to innocence.

[6]

"I stood in unimaginable trance
And agony, which cannot be remember'd."

--_Speech of Alhadra in Coleridge's Remorse._

[7] Some readers will question the _fact_, and seek no reason. But did
they ever suffer grief at _any_ season of the year?

[8] [Greek: Phyge monou pros monon].--PLOTINUS.

[9] The thoughts referred to will be given in final notes; as at this
point they seemed too much to interrupt the course of the narrative.

[10] "Everlasting Jew!"--_der ewige Jude_--which is the common German
expression for _The Wandering Jew_, and sublimer even than our own.

[11] "_I felt._"--The reader must not forget, in reading this and other
passages, that, though a child's feelings are spoken of, it is not the
child who speaks. _I_ decipher what the child only felt in cipher. And so
far is this distinction or this explanation from pointing to any thing
metaphysical or doubtful, that a man must be grossly unobservant who is
not aware of what I am here noticing, not as a peculiarity of this child
or that, but as a necessity of all children. Whatsoever in a man's mind
blossoms and expands to his own consciousness in mature life, must have
pre-existed in germ during his infancy. I, for instance, did not, as a
child, _consciously_ read in my own deep feeling these ideas. No, not at
all; nor was it possible for a child to do so. I the child had the
feelings, I the man decipher them. In the child lay the handwriting
mysterious to _him_; in me the interpretation and the comment.

[12] I except, however, one case--the case of a child dying of an organic
disorder, so therefore as to die slowly, and aware of its own condition.
Because such a child is solemnized, and sometimes, in a partial sense,
inspired--inspired by the depth of its sufferings, and by the awfulness of
its prospect. Such a child having put off the earthly mind in many things,
may naturally have put off the childish mind in all things. I therefore,
speaking for myself only, acknowledge to have read with emotion a record
of a little girl, who, knowing herself for months to be amongst the elect
of death, became anxious even to sickness of heart for what she called the
_conversion_ of her father. Her filial duty and reverence had bee