or whether that principle is not rather something beyond it.

4.

For instance,(20) let a person, whose experience has hitherto been
confined to the more calm and unpretending scenery of these islands,
whether here or in England, go for the first time into parts where
physical nature puts on her wilder and more awful forms, whether at home
or abroad, as into mountainous districts; or let one, who has ever lived
in a quiet village, go for the first time to a great metropolis,--then I
suppose he will have a sensation which perhaps he never had before. He has
a feeling not in addition or increase of former feelings, but of something
different in its nature. He will perhaps be borne forward, and find for a
time that he has lost his bearings. He has made a certain progress, and he
has a consciousness of mental enlargement; he does not stand where he did,
he has a new centre, and a range of thoughts to which he was before a
stranger.

Again, the view of the heavens which the telescope opens upon us, if
allowed to fill and possess the mind, may almost whirl it round and make
it dizzy. It brings in a flood of ideas, and is rightly called an
intellectual enlargement, whatever is meant by the term.

And so again, the sight of beasts of prey and other foreign animals, their
strangeness, the originality (if I may use the term) of their forms and
gestures and habits and their variety and independence of each other,
throw us out of ourselves into another creation, and as if under another
Creator, if I may so express the temptation which may come on the mind. We
seem to have new faculties, or a new exercise for our faculties, by this
addition to our knowledge; like a prisoner, who, having been accustomed to
wear manacles or fetters, suddenly finds his arms and legs free.

Hence Physical Science generally, in all its departments, as bringing
before us the exuberant riches and resources, yet the orderly course, of
the Universe, elevates and excites the student, and at first, I may say,
almost takes away his breath, while in time it exercises a tranquilizing
influence upon him.

Again, the study of history is said to enlarge and enlighten the mind, and
why? because, as I conceive, it gives it a power of judging of passing
events, and of all events, and a conscious superiority over them, which
before it did not possess.

And in like manner, what is called seeing the world, entering into active
life, going into society, travel