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tious in her forebodings and dreams, it is nevertheless
true that there was much in her of the " seer." When
her luminous eyes, full of genius, were fastened on the
person to whom she spoke, one felt that they penetrated
the very soul. How often did she, with a look, pierce
through the mask beneath which less sagacious glances
had failed to discover the real countenance! How
often would she divine the secret motives that were
hidden from others, and even unrevealed to their very
owner! It was her poet-soul which thus became in her
the seer. A chance word, a single insignificant episode
which she came across, could reveal to her the whole
connection between cause and effect, and enable her to
develop them into the story of a whole life. It was
this connection for which her soul was always
searching—the connection in thoughtful works, and between
the varied phenomena of life. She even sought for the
unknown connection between these phenomena and
the laws of thought. She sought for unity in the
world of thought, and longed for it also in the world
of feeling.
Just as her intellect craved absolute clearness of
thought and absolute truth, so her heart craved that
perfect love and union which the limitations of life,
and more especially the limitations of her own nature,
rendered impossible.
It was a never-ending source of grief to her that in
this world " we can only see in part, and only know
in part." Thus it was that she loved to dream about
another and a higher life, of which the Apostle so
beautifully says," Now we see through a glass darkly,
but then face to face." To perceive unity in the
manifold was the aim of her scientific and poetic mind.
But ah! did she ever attain to this f The possibility
of such attainment, dim and uncertain as it is, makes
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