Those pilgrimings to Coleridge,years ago,indicate deeper wants beginning to be felt,and important ulterior resolutions becoming inevitable for him.If in your own soul there is any tone of the "Eternal Melodies,"you cannot live forever in those poor outer,transitory grindings and discords;you will have to struggle inwards and upwards,in search of some diviner home for yourself!--Coleridge's prophetic moonshine,Torrijos's sad tragedy:those were important occurrences in Sterling's life.But,on the whole,there was a big Ocean for him,with impetuous Gulf-streams,and a doomed voyage in quest of the Atlantis,_before_either of those arose as lights on the horizon.As important beacon-lights let us count them nevertheless;--signal-dates they form to us,at lowest.We may reckon this Torrijos tragedy the crisis of Sterling's history;the turning-point,which modified,in the most important and by no means wholly in the most favorable manner,all the subsequent stages of it.
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