To me this Alistic literature is so catholic and
universal, that it has spread its energies and influences through
every age and nation, in brighter or obscurer manifestations. It
forms the intellectual patrimony of the universe, delivered down from
kindling sire to kindling son, through all nations, peoples, and
languages. Like the God from whom it springs, on whom it lives, and
to whom it returns, this divine literature is ever young, ever old,
ever present, ever remote. Like heaven's own sunshine, it adorns all
it touches, and it touches all. It is a perfect cosmopolite in
essence and in action; it has nothing local or limitary in its
nature; it participates the character of the soul from which it
emanated. It subsists whole in itself, it is its own place, its own
time, nor seeks abroad the life it grants at home; aye, it is an
eternal now, an eternal present, at once beginning, middle, and end
of every past and every future.
(* 2) In explanation of this term, we quote a few sentences
from a printed prospectus issued by Mr. Barham. "_The Alist_; _a
Monthly Magazine of Divinity and Universal Literature_.
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