Chapter XXXIX: Section III

Genius, lifting its life to the Ideal becomes itself a pure
idea--It must comprehend all existence: all human sins and
sufferings--But, in comprehending, it transmutes them--The Poet
in his twofold being--The actual and the ideal--The influence
of Genius over the sternest realities of earth--Over our
passions--wars and superstitions--Its identity is with human
progress--Its agency, even where unacknowledged, is universal.