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PREFACE 
 
last (the pious will quote James 2, 19, and the infidel 
will observe that he died in an asylum) ;  then the 
full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of 
death become more and more an obsession, and he is 
flung headlong into Sadism, Necrophilia, all the mad-
dest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought 
up from the pit.  But always to the very end his 
power is unexhausted, immense, terrible.  His delirium 
does not amuse ;  it appals !  A man who could conceive 
as he did must himself have had some glorious chord 
in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of Bound-
less Love.  That this love was wrecked is for me, in 
some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. 
He might have been so great !  He missed Heaven ! 
Think kindly of him !