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    THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE. 38...

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    actions , and as surely as the angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence , so certainly will great power produce , in some way ,

    Bernard yet great indirectl effects Palissy y , , if in not the achieve directl influence y ? , in The it the will production attainment exert upon of of others a a few mig . hty p What lates obj and e did ct ,

    dishes of peculiar lustre ! It was not even " something new under the sun" for he aimed but to recover a lost art ; and , when he

    succeeded , so circumscribed were tine effects of the discovery , that It is believe , d not even to have survived himand that nearly all

    the Palissy ware of any value was made during , his life , while the arativelfew specimens that remainof objects not so very

    curious striking comp collections in beaut y y of after rarities all , . are . Viewed to be found in its , onl mere y in tang museums ible results and ,

    what claim has he upon us as compared with the accidental discoverer of the process of glass-making , if the tale be true of the

    fused sand and soda remaining after the desert-cooked dinner of the Phoenician merchant ? But are these insignificant vessels of

    earthand enware , with leall their that grotesque the world reptile owes io decorations the potter , shinin of Paris g in ? brown "With

    far more purp lustre , than even his cunning skill could produce , on pot or does he himself shine as one of the brightest examples that

    hav pan e ever , been given of continually renewed energy and unconquerable perseverance . Undeterred by the frequency of his

    disappointments , the failure of his resources , the ridicule of his acquaintances , the remonstrances and entreaties of his family , he

    tried and tried again , until—he succeeded : and what then said the his discovery nei success ghbours spread was ? , the as Wh it winning at did said , far his of and countrymen a king wide dom ? Did when or it the matter the glazing fam whether e of of his a

    , less pitcher forcibl ? The impressed lesson inculcated because of was the not _comparativel the less valuable y trifling or value the

    of the object y gained . The influence it exerted could not have been small , even had it never spread beyond his contemporaries ; but a

    modern writer has made the record of what he did , and what he was ( familiar to thousands in the present dayand few perhaps who

    , , to have them read afterwards it , have not more had or the less poor frequentl French y clay , as - a worker living ' s embodiment name recur

    of nil desperandum , , an incentive in moments of despondency to yet once Or , more going " ' Tryagain back to the . " ancient world , we may take as an

    illustration him who may almost be called the Messiah of the Gfentiles , inasmuch as the Almighty empowered him to " bring life and immortality to " at least that twilight on the subject which they were

    ventor no permitted discovery . Strangest to in enj science oy . of He all or , won he art even no ; was b wrote attl neither e , no he book founded poet ; , painter but no he state , did nor , made more

    inthan either , or than all . He thought—and lived out his thoughts

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    THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE . 385

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/25/