Exeter, July 1. 1851.
_Tennyson: "The Princess"_ (Vol. iii., p. 493.).--Does not the passage--
"Dare we dream of that, I asked,
Which wrought us, as the workman and his work
That practice betters"--
simply mean, "Dare we dream of" the God who made us as of a finite
creature, who requires "practice" ere His work can be perfect, and whose
skill shall be progressive? In short, "dare we" think of Him as such an
one as ourselves?