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A THEORY OF PALPABLE SUBLIMITY--SOME PRACTICAL IDEAS, AND.
THE COMMENCEMENT OF ADVENTURES.
The recollection of the intense feelings of that important period of my life has, in some measure, disturbed the connection of the narrative, and may possibly have left some little obscurity in the mind of the reader on the subject of the new sources of happiness that had broken on my own intelligence.

A word here in the way of elucidation, therefore, may not be misapplied, although it is my purpose to refer more to my acts, and to the wonderful incidents it will shortly be my duty to lay before the world, for a just understanding of my views, than to mere verbal explanations.
Happiness--happiness, here and hereafter, was my goal.

I aimed at a life of useful and active benevolence, a deathbed of hope and joy, and an eternity of fruition.

With such an object before me, my thoughts, from the moment that I witnessed the dying regrets of my father, had been intensely brooding over the means of attainment.