Terezia Palanki (terepala) from ba25lab10.utm.edu at 10/02/96 08:19AM
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    In John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, there is a passage where he discusses how he began to come out of his depression. He says that he was reading Marmontel's Memories, and came to the passage about his father's death and began to cry. After this he was no longer hopeless. This part of the essay is almost like the part in Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," where the Mariner is finally able to pray because he saw the beauty of the water snakes and blessed them. In both instances, the primary "character's" life can begin anew after their respective experience.