Well, as I read that, and ere ever I was aware what was going on, my heart had opened over my newspaper, and the sun had swept down from the sky, and had rushed into my heart, and before I knew where I was the cry had escaped my lips, 'Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty! Who shall not fear Thee and glorify thy name ?' And then this reflection as suddenly came to me: How good it is to be at peace with God, and to be able and willing to say, My Father! That the whole of the surging and flaming sun was actually down in my straitened and hampered heart at that idle moment over my paper is scientifically demonstrable; for only that which is in the heart of a man can kindle the passions that are in the heart of that man; and nothing is more sure to me than that the great passions of fear and love, wonder and rapture were at that moment at a burning point within me.

There is a passage well on in the _Holy War_, which for terror and for horror, and at the same time for truth and for power, equals anything either in Dante or in Milton.
Lucifer has stood up at the council board to second the scheme of Beelzebub.

'Yes,' he said, amid the plaudits of his fellow-princes--'Yes, I swear it.

Let us fill Mansoul full with our abundance.

Let us make of this castle, as they vainly call it, a warehouse, as the name is in some of their cities above.