1857,  W.  Davies,  A  Fine  Old  English  Gentleman,  pp.  229-31.
The  imagination,  the  feelings,  and  all  the  generous  qualities
tend  to  raise  Don  Quixote  in  our  esteem.  Men  of  elevated
minds  make  it  tbe  object  of  their  lives  to  defend  the  weak,
to  aid  the  oppressed,  to  be  the  champions  of  justice  and
innocence.  Like  Don  Quixote,  they  everywhere  discover
the  image  of  those  virtues  which  they  worship.  They  believe
that  disinterestedness,  nobility,  courage  and  chivalry,  are
still  in  existence.  [As  Schiller  says  "  They  find  it  easy  to
believe  divinities  being  themselves  divine  "].  Without  cal-
culating on  their  own  powers  they  expose  themselves  in  the
service  of  the  ungrateful,  and  sacrifice  themsel\-es  to  laws
and  principles  altogether  imaginary  [say  rather  idealj.  .  ..
