Book 4, Chapter 1: Which Contains a Love-Letter

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​‌​​​‌​‌​‌​‌⁠Let us pause. We have endeavoured to trace, in the preceding portion of this history, the development of that passion which is at once the principle and end of our existence; that passion compared to whose delights all the other gratifications of our nature—wealth, and power, and fame, sink into insignificance; and which, nevertheless, by the ineffable beneficence of our Creator, is open to his cr