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 S8 V. THE BOILING-POINT OF LOVE-HEAT.

ment, because he has the Herderian or Fichtean tem- peraent, because he has the Carlylean temperament, the temperament of the Taoists, Vedantists and Zenists. The same wings which carry a Schelling, an Omar Khayyam, a Kabir, or a Mazzini carry also the folk- poet of Caledonia. A common vision inspires them all— but their message they deliver in diverse forms. They express themselves in different ways and lay stress on different particulars. We have thus an edu- cational mystic, a political mystic, a philosophical mys- tic, a religious mystic, and so on. But they have all drunk of the same fountain of inner selfj the spirit, the subjective consciousness, the untouchable, the infinite, the perennial springs of Nature and Life, the eternal " realities " of the universe, the world's permanent verities.

The following is the Gitd of Roby Burns :

"Oh ! what is death but parting breath ? — On many a bloody plain I've dared his face, and in this place I scorn him yet again ! Untie these bands from off my hands, And bring to me my sword ! And there's no man in all Scotland But I will brave him at a word. Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright, And all beneath the sky ! May coward shame disdain his name, The wretch that dares not die ! "

Human life produces the same phenomenon under the same conditions of temperature and pressure. There is no Scotch mentality and no Hindu mentality. Tegh