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92 Coleridge says, of the poet's and artist's Understanding:

Peace, the sense of friendly continuity between our own life and the Power beyond, has also been lamentably missing among many who professed to have found it. A good Christian is never disturbed or fearful, he does not fret or worry. (Oddly enough, as I wrote the last word a telegram arrived which announced that a registered manuscript had taken six days instead of twelve hours to arrive at the publisher's, thus effectually destroying my plans and breaking up my morning's work.) Well, a Christian must never worry, and the gentle 'Bother!' is just as much out of place on his lips as the other more pronounced and more theological expletive. We owe a great debt to the 'Don't-worry Movement', which has changed the ways of whole sections of people in America, and is spreading beneficently to the more highly-strung citizens of the Old World. This does not mean that we have merely to go through life with a 'higher-thought smile'; but it does mean that much of our unhappiness, and the unhappiness we make around us, is caused by our exaggeration—and our