He  had  passed  through  politics,  philosophy,  religion  —
through  English  and  French  and  Greek  ideas  —
through  Italian  and  Spanish  imaginative  art,  and  he  now
summed  in  himself  that  power  of  man  which  he  had
lived  through  in  others  —  it  had  become  his,  it  had
become  himself.  In  the  whole  course  of  this  development
no  trait  is  more  important  to  observe,  than  his  marvel-
lous intellectual  honesty;  he  took  only  what  at  any  mo-
ment was  capable  of  living  in  him ;  he  gave  it  free  course
in  his  life,  outlived  it,  transmigrated  from  it,  and  came  to
the  next  stage  of  higher  life,  and  so  won  on  to  the  end.
