Subasta Bidspirit | DE QUINCEY THOMAS: (1785-1859) English

DE QUINCEY THOMAS: (1785-1859) English writer, essayist and literary critic, remembered for his Conf... - DE QUINCEY THOMAS: (1785-1859) English writer, essayist and literary critic, remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, one page, n.p., n.d. Quincey writes on a religious theme, in full, 'Xtianity in relation to Judaism was but a vast sheet of ice when beginning to dissolve gave a promise of all soon dissolving; and the transition was from a lower state to a higher: from an imperfect degree to perfection in the same genus, from an [blank] problem to its consummation, from the segment to its integration. Whereas afterwards it was a surrender to a formed opponent, formed as such to heroism consciousness, formed to the opinion of the world. The Christians had now become a known autogenic body. So if you listen to a Reformer in the first stage, you seem rather to share with him than to oppose him - to go along rather than to follow. You are both with yr. faces set in the same direction, both starting from error together. But let him form himself into a champion' . Quincey's notes are written to the verso of part of a printed announcement regarding a memorial for the late Father Perry in appreciation of his 'labours in Solar Physics and Terrestrial Magnetism' and 'his ever ready willingness to lecture to the people' . Very slightly irregularly torn to the left edge, VG