. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. dingpublic. Like Goethes * Faust > in pursuing the course of a humansoul through influences emanating from the Supreme Good and theSupreme Evil; in having Heaven and the World as its scene; in itsinclusion of God and the Devil, the Archangels and Angels, thePowers of Perdition, and withal many earthly types in its action, —it is by no means a mere imitation of the great German. Its plan iswider. It incorporates even more impressive spiritual material than offers. Not only is its mortal hero, Festus, conductedthrough an amazing pi
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. dingpublic. Like Goethes * Faust > in pursuing the course of a humansoul through influences emanating from the Supreme Good and theSupreme Evil; in having Heaven and the World as its scene; in itsinclusion of God and the Devil, the Archangels and Angels, thePowers of Perdition, and withal many earthly types in its action, —it is by no means a mere imitation of the great German. Its plan iswider. It incorporates even more impressive spiritual material than offers. Not only is its mortal hero, Festus, conductedthrough an amazing pilgrimage, spiritual and redeemed by divineLove, but we have in the poem a conception of close associationwith Christianity, profound ethical suggestions, a flood of theologyand philosophy, metaphysics and science, picturing Good and Evil,love and hate, peace and war, the past, the present, and the future,earth, heaven, and hell, heights and depths, dominions, principalities,and powers, God and man, the whole of being and of not-being,—all. Philip James Bailey J 244 PHILIP JAMES BAILEY in an effort to unmask the last and greatest secrets of Infinity. Andmore than all this, strives to portray the sufficiency ofDivine Love and of the Divine Atonement to dissipate, even to anni-hilate. Evil. For even Lucifer and the hosts of darkness are restoredto purity and to peace among the Sons of God, the Children ofLight! The Love of God is set forth as limitless. We have beforeus the birth of matter at the Almightys fiat; and we close the workwith the salvation and ecstasy — described as decreed from the Begin-ning— of whatever creature hath been given a spiritual existence,and made a spiritual subject and agency. There is in the doctrineof ^ Festus > no such thing as the Son of Perdition * who shall bean ultimate castaway. Few English poems have attracted more general notice from allintelligent classes of readers than did ^ Festus ^ on its advent. Ortho-doxy was not a little agh
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