give me bread and fire i perceive that i pay for it the full price and at last it leaves me as it found me neither better nor worse but all mental and moral force is a positive good it goes out from you whether you will or not and profits me whom you never thought of i cannot even hear of personal vigour of any kind great power of performance without fresh resolution we are of all that man can do s saying of sir walter i know that he can toil terribly is an electric touch so are s portraits � of who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious and of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp and of a personal courage equal to his best parts � of who was so severe an of truth that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal as to we cannot read without a of the blood and i accept the saying of the chinese a sage is the of a hundred ages when the manners of loo are heard of the stupid become intelligent and the wavering determined this is the moral of biography yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions whose names may not last as long what is he whom i never think of whilst in every solitude are those who our genius and us in wonderful manners there is a power in love to divine another s destiny better than that other can and by heroic to hold him to his task what has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us we will never more think of ourselves or of life we are to some purpose and the industry of the on the railroad will not again shame us this head too falls that homage very pure � of great as i think which all ranks pay to the hero of the day � from and down to hear the shouts in the street the people cannot see him enough they delight in a man here is a head and a trunk what a front what eyes shoulders and the whole carriage heroic with equal inward force to guide the great machine this pleasure of full expression to that which in their private experience is usually cramped and runs also much higher and is the secret of the reader s joy in literary genius nothing is kept back there is fire enough to the mountain of ore s principal merit maybe conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the english language and can say what he will yet these channels and of expression are only health or fortunate constitution s name suggests other and purely intellectual benefits and sovereigns have no compliment with their swords and coats like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height and his intelligence this honour which is possible in personal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime genius perpetually pays contented if now and then in a century the is accepted the of the of matter are degraded to a sort of and on the appearance of the of ideas genius is the or of the regions and draws their map and by us with new fields of activity our affection for the old these are at once accepted as the reality of which the world we have conversed with is the show we go to the and swimming school to see the power and beauty of the body there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual of all kinds as of memory of combination great power of abstraction the jo of the imagination even and as these acts expose the invisible organs and members of the mind which member for member to the parts of the body for we thus enter a new and to choose by their truest marks taught with to choose those who can without aid iron the eyes or any other senses proceed to truth and to being foremost among these are the and wrought by the imagination when this wakes a man seems to ten times or a thousand times his force it opens the delicious sense of size and an audacious mental habit we are as elastic as the gas of and a sentence in a book or a word dropped in conversation sets free our fancy and instantly our heads are bathed with and our feet tread the floor ef the rt and this benefit is real because we are entitled to these and once having passed the bounds shall never again be quite the miserable we were the high functions of the intellect are so that some imaginative power usually in all em i minds even in of the first but especially in meditative men of an habit of thought this class serve us so that they have the perception of identity and the perception of the eyes of never shut on either ef these laws the perception of these laws is a kind of of the mind little minds are little through failure to see them even these have their our delight in into of the herald especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men we find the of oppression the dominion of the the credit of ef bacon of in religion the history of of saints and the which have taken the name of each founder are in point alas my of great u man is such a victim the of men is always inviting the impudence of power it is the delight of vulgar talent to and bind the but true genius seeks to defend us from true genius will not but will and add new senses if a wise man should appear 