Alas, shut out from Hope, in a deeper sense than we yet dream of! For, as hewanders wearisomely through this world, he has now lost all tidings of another andhigher. Full of religion, or at least of religiosity, as our Friend has since exhibitedhimself, he hides not that, in those days, he was wholly irreligious: “Doubt haddarkened into Unbelief,” says he; “shade after shade goes grimly over your soul, tillyou have the fixed, starless, Tartarean black.