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I begin with the sublime; because, though it is the more violent passion, it is, perhaps, the more simple. The sublime is commonly connected with vastness, whether of space or of power. Whatever is in any sort terrible, or astounding, that is, whatever is fitted to excite the idea of pain and danger, may be said to partake of the sublime: but the sublime may arise also from the incomprehensible, from the obscure, and from that which is great beyond measure.