He has not lost his fighting power, nor his cheerful cry that life is before him in the fulness of the world to come.

The _Reverie_ and the _Epilogue_ to _Asolando_ are noble statements of his courage, faith, and joy.

There is nothing sad there, nothing to make us beat the breast.

But there is sadness in this abandonment of the imaginative glory with which once he clothed the world of Nature; and he ought to have retained it.

He would have done so had he not forgotten Nature in anatomising man.
However, he goes on with his undying effort to make the best of things, and though he has lost his rapture in Nature, he has not lost his main theory of man's life and of the use of the universe.