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(4. in this transcendental course. Cower therefore; and give me of your inspirations, that they may do me good. For all your words of helpful hope and cheer, God bless you. Not for myself alone, but for others who need these things even more than I. The darkness is not so intense broidered round with so much tenderness and love. Life and death - sickness and health - are little things, compared with Being. I trust we are not so cowardly as to sink beneath the temporary ills which attach to our condition; and I believe that, while we all suffer, we suffer as men should do. For myself, standing on these battle-heights, and finding the Supreme beauties, I can lay my hand on my heart and say that I account of little worth my own slight aches and pains; that how my heart I love the cause; and that - giving all I had on this side to which my soul gave allegiance - I regret only that I could not, by a wide costly sacrifice, demonstrate my fealty and my truth. I shall do myself the pleasure to write your sister at my next earliest