text:  And last and worst of all in the ignorance and in the disdain of statutes and sanctions and preceding authoritative judgments--the humours and fancies the likings and the mislikings the incapable comprehension and the precipitate misapprehensions of an untrained uninstructed inexperienced self-unknowing spirit howsoever of Nature gifted or ungifted to be taken for the standard of the worth which the generations of mankind have approved or which has newly risen up to enlighten the generations of mankind! Abstain then from judging O Critic that wilt be! Humble thine understanding in reverence! Open thy soul to beliefs! Yield up thy heart dissolving and overcome to love! Cultivate self-suspicion! and learn! learn! learn! The bountiful years that lift up the oak to maturity shall rear and strengthen and ripen thee! Knowledge of books knowledge of men knowledge of Nature--and solicited and roused and sharpened in the manifold and studious conversation with books and with men and with Nature--last and greatest--the knowledge of thyself--shall bring thee out large-hearted high-minded sensitive apprehensive comprehensive informed and original clear and profound genial and exact scrutinizing and pardoning candid and generous and just--in a word a finished CRITIC