text:  It has ever appeared to us to have purposed showing at one view humanity in its highest its divinely perfected state the manhood taken into Godhead; and humanity in its lowest its most forlorn most degraded state in the person of a demoniac: and this contrast seems acknowledged--abhorrently felt by the reluctant spirit within the sufferer whose attitude starting from the effulgence and the power which is yet to heal him being the strong action of the lower part of the picture and one of suffering throws the eye and mind of the spectator at once and permanently from earth to the heavenly vision to ascending prophets and that bright and central majesty "whose countenance " Mr