The Lifted Veil
CHAPTER I

Give me no light, great Heaven, but such as turns
To energy of human fellowship；
No powers beyond the growing heritage
That makes completer manhood.
The time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject to attacks of angina pectoris； and in the ordinary course of things, my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not be protracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with an exceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with an exceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan under the wearisome burthen of this earthly existence. If it were to be otherwise--if I were to live on to the age most men desire and provide for--I should for once have known whether the miseries of delusive expectation can outweigh the miseries of true provision. For I foresee when I shall die, and everything that will happen in my last moments.
Just a month from this day, on September 20, 1850, I shall be s

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