25 MAY 1901, Page 13

• [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SP zerszos.i Sin,—In reference

to the language of Mn Symonds men- tioned in your correspondence on "Vastness and Isolation," may I venture to quote Robert Browning's words in " Pauline " ?— ig I am made up of an intensest life,

Of a most clear ides of consciousness Of self, distinct from all its qualities, From all affections, passions, feelings, powers I

And thus far it exists, if tracked, in alt."

(The italics, of course, are mine.)—I am, Sir, &e., EDWIN A. EA.DE.

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[This correspondence must now end.—En. Spectator.)