Excerpt from The Passionate Pilgrim: Or Eros and Anteros A thousand trivialities of common life not altogether omissible - not altogether, as I hope, unpardonable in narration, formed part of these spiritual experiences; and by the subtle intercurrents of being, passed into the mind, or whatever it may be, which is the silent and sequestered centre of our individuality. A thousand per plexed thoughts on human life, thoughts not novel, but 'the oldest of the old, and so gifted with perpetual youth, grew with advancing years, menaced often life itself with overshadowing terror, and found in passion a contrasting peace, or a consolatory resolution. Some account, there fore, of mental progress, the steps of study and the teach ings of man and nature, is a necessary portion of an under taking, which will interest none but those - and better for mankind were they the majority - from whom nothing human is alien. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.