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FAUST.

familiar with the history of the work, and is able to overlook it as a whole, the fitness—or the unfitness—of the multitude of parts becomes gradually evident; the compressed meanings expand into breadth and distinctness; and even those enigmas which seem to defy an ultimate analysis will charm him by dissolving into new ones, or by showing him forms of thought which fade and change as he seeks to retain them.