perfect comprehension of higher aims
or deeper insight, these sublime
strugglers against ignorance, preju-
dice, caste, and power, become the
heroes and martyrs of the race; they
announce the advent of new con-
ceptions of social order and indi-
vidual rights; they incarnate the
imperishable soul of humanity in its
long and terrible endeavour to bring
the institutions and the ideas of men
into harmony with a higher order of
life.

The tragic element has, therefore,
many aspects, -- sometimes lawless
and destructive, sometimes self-sacri-
ficing and instructive; but its illustra-
tion in literature in any form is not
only profoundly interesting, but pro-
foundly instructive as well. In no
other literary form is the stuff of
which life is made wrought into such

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