is dry and is not by the of foreign flesh is in a more lent condition is more and is more prompt for intellectual energy thus too it is said that the which is the and the to the taste affords the best honey to bees the therefore or power of the soul is or rather he who when this energy is mingled with the energies of either the imagination or power but consists in a t days from a separation from all these and the wisdom which is adapted to divine concerns is a desertion of everything of this kind the proper likewise of each thing is that which essentially es it thus you may say that the of a stone is the cause of its continuing to be a stone and of firmly remaining in a form but the of a plant is that which preserves it in increase and and of an animated body that which preserves its composition it is one thing however to and another to and one thing to impart what is necessary and another to produce what is luxurious various therefore are the kinds of and various also is the nature of the things that are nourished and it is necessary that indeed all things should be nourished but we should earnestly endeavor to our most principal parts hence the of the rational soul is that which preserves it in a rational state but this is intellect so that it is to be nourished by intellect and we should earnestly endeavor that it may be through this rather than that the flesh may become through for intellect preserves for us eternal life but the body when causes the soul to be furnished through its hunger after a blessed life not being satisfied our mortal part since it is of itself insane and an of an immortal condition ot being it likewise by the soul and drawing her down to that which is foreign to her nature and the indeed as it were a soul to the iron which is placed near it and the iron though most heavy is elevated and runs to the spirit of the stone should he therefore who is suspended and deity be anxiously busied in food which the body that is an to intellectual perception t ought he not rather by what is necessary to the flesh into that which is little and easily procured be nourished by to god more closely than the iron to tin i wish indeed that our nature was not so and that it were possible we could live without the derived fi om fruits that as says we were not in want of meat or drink that we might be truly immortal � the poet in thus speaking beautifully that food is the not only of life but also of death if therefore we were not in want of vegetable we should be by so much the more blessed in proportion as we should be more immortal but now living in a mortal condition we render ourselves if it may be proper so to speak still more mortal through becoming ignorant that by addition of this the soul as says does not only confer a great i s a benefit on the body by being its but giving herself wholly to it hence it is much to be wished that we could obtain the life celebrated in in which hunger and thirst are unknown or that by stopping the every way flowing of the body we may in a very little time be present with the most excellent natures to which he who since deity is there is himself a god but how is it possible not to lament the condition of the of mankind who are so involved in darkness as to cherish their own evil and who in the first place hate themselves and him who them and afterwards those who them and call on them to return firom to a sober condition of being i � an from animal food june x cottage th our and fields remind me whenever i step into their presence of your promise of spending awhile with us at the cottage but lest you should chance to alight at my door while i am absent i write now to say that i purpose to breathe those mountain airs and shall leave for on monday next � so do nt come till after my return i shall then have the more to communicate of the spirit of those hills lately i have been sent to seek the members of that brotherhood whom god designs shall dwell together in his paradise the time is near when the soul s shall as a visible fact rooted in the soil of new england and wise even as the of old record their version of the of man and the and planting of i have visited the city since i saw you where i met persons a few of wise hearts and growing gifts and graces god is breeding men and women here and there for the new heaven and earth � have you seen he has been passing a few days with me and a great promise he is to me the youth is rich in wisdom a child of deepest and truest life god has a work for the boy and set him about it � while his years scarce days from a april numbered an � and now he is great beside his and shall honor his remember i am to see you on my return your friend xi green th bland the air picturesque the scenery of these hills this is the of our republic and these are parcel of their mountains and love them as do the this too is the scenery this the these the pursuits for growing and here is the haunt of reform cherished by these austere of toil and 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