The sublime is the temple-step of religion, as

5 the stars are of immeasurable space. When what is mighty appears in nature—a storm, thunder, the starry firmament, death—then utter the word "God" before the child. A great misfortune, a great ble ing, a great crime, a noble action, are building-sites for a child's church. Jean Paul. The sublime produces a beautiful calmne in the soul which, entirely po e ed by it, feels as great as it ever can feel. When we compare such a feeling with that we are sensible of when we laboriously hara ourselves with some trifle, and strain every nerve to gain as much as po ible for it, as it were, to patch it out, striving to furnish joy and aliment to the mind from its own creation, we then feel sensibly what a poor expedient, after all, the latter is. Goethe.