text:  If not the smallest poem of a small poet ever came to him from mere reason but from something deeper and more vital much less are the strong pulsations of pure emotion the deep-seated convictions of religious faith in the inner man to be spoke of as things that mere reason can either assert or deny; and in fact we see when we look narrowly into the great philosophical systems that have been projected by scheming reasoners in France and Germany each man out of his own brain that they all end either in materialism and atheism on the one hand or in idealism and pantheism on the other