that by virtue of his suffering he than the shrewdest and wisest can ever know, that he has been familiar with, and at home in, many distant, dreadful worlds of which know nothing this silent intellectual haughtiness of the sufferer, this pride of the elect of knowledge, of the initiated, of the almost sacrificed, finds all forms of disguise necessary to protect itself from contact with officious and sympathizing hands, and in general from all that is not its equal in suffering.