 I felt that the sentiments were true, not assumed.And in this have I long believed that my power consists; in sympathy and that part of the imagination which relates to sentiment and contemplation.I am formed, if for anything not in common with the herd of mankind, to apprehend minute and remote distinctions of feeling, whether relative to external nature or the living beings which surround us, and to communicate the conceptions which result from considering either the moral or the material universe as a whole.