Besides," continued I, "if it be a mere fit of insanity that has seized him, may not my presence chance to have a salutary influence?
The mere sight of me, it is not impossible, may rectify his perceptions." "Ay," said my uncle, with some eagerness; "it is by no means impossible that your interview may have that effect; and for that reason, beyond all others, would I dissuade you from it." I expressed my surprize at this declaration.

"Is it not to be desired that an error so fatal as this should be rectified ?" "I wonder at your question.

Reflect on the consequences of this error.
Has he not destroyed the wife whom he loved, the children whom he idolized?
What is it that enables him to bear the remembrance, but the belief that he acted as his duty enjoined?
Would you rashly bereave him of this belief?
Would you restore him to himself, and convince him that he was instigated to this dreadful outrage by a perversion of his organs, or a delusion from hell?
"Now his visions are joyous and elate.

He conceives himself to have reached a loftier degree of virtue, than any other human being.

The merit of his sacrifice is only enhanced in the eyes of superior beings, by the detestation that pursues him here, and the sufferings to which he is condemned.