text:  Take rather the story to pieces convince yourself step by step how strangely at every turn the old world and the new the Christian and the Heathen are confounded together and feel at every step how the vitality which the good poet has infused into his work reconciles and atones discordancies and discrepancies; and in spite of the perplexing physiognomy how that must needs be one body which is informed and actuated through all its joints and members by one spirit