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About the Book: Such a fire it afterwards appears did actually burst forth with explosions more or less Vesuvian in the inner man of Her Diogenes; as indeed how could it fail? A nature which in his own figurative style we might say had now not a little carbonised tinder of irresistibility with so much nitre of latent Passion and sulphurous Humour enough; the whole lying in such a hot neighborhood close by a reverberating furnace of Fantasy:have we not here the components of the driest Gunpowder ready on occasion of the smallest spark to blaze up? Neither in this our life element are sparks anywhere wanting. Without doubt some Angel whereof so many hovered round would one day leaving the outskirts of AEsthetic tea flit higher and by electric Promehean glance kindle no despicable firework. Happy if it indeed proved a Firework and flamed off rocket-wise in successive beautiful bursts of splendor each growing naturally from the other through the several stages of a happy Youthful Love till the whole were safely burnt out and the young souls relieved with little damage! A critical study of Thomas Carlyle''s Sartor Resartus by Friedrich Nietzsche.