‘There is a pleasure in the thought that the particular tone of my mind at this moment may be new in the Universe;
that the emotions of this hour may be peculiar and unexampled in the whole eternity of moral being. I lead a new life. I occupy new ground in the world of spirits, untenanted before.
I commence a career of thought and action which is expanding before me into a distant and dazzling infinity.
Strange thoughts start up like angels in my way and beckon me onward. I doubt not I tread on the highway that leads to the Divinity.’
(JMN, III, p. 79)
(he was twenty-four when he wrote this)
ends in solace 