science the shoes of swiftness the sword of the power of the elements of using the secret virtues of of understanding the voices of birds are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction the of the hero the gift of perpetual youth and the like are alike the endeavour of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind in and de a and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful and fade on the brow of the in the story of the boy and the mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the and indeed all the of annals � that the do not like to be named that their gifts are capricious and not to be trusted that who seeks a treasure must not speak and the like � i find true in however they might be in or is it otherwise in the romance i read the bride of sir william is a mask for a vulgar temptation wood castle a fine name for proud poverty and the foreign mission of state only a disguise for honest industry we may all shoot a wild that would t toss tbe good and bv down die and is name far which is always and always to calamity in world but along the civil and of another history goes daily forward � of the external world � in which he is not less he is the of time be b the of nature his power consists in tbe multitude of his in die fact that his life is with the whole of and being in old rome die public roads beginning at the proceeded south east west to the centre of every of tbe em making each market town of spain and to the soldiers of die capital so out of the human heart go as it were to the heart of every object in nature to reduce it under the dominion of man a man is a bundle of relations a knot of roots whose flower and b the world his faculties refer to natures out of him and tbe he b to as tbe of the fish that water or the wings of an eagle in the egg air he cannot live without a world put napoleon in an bland prison let hb faculties find do men to act on no to climb no stake id tt y for and he would beat the air and appear i transport him to countries dense complex interests and power you shall see that the man napoleon bounded lt is by such a and outline is not the napoleon this is but s shadow his substance is not here for what see is but the smallest part and least proportion of humanity but were the whole frame here it is of such a spacious lofty pitch your roof were not sufficient to contain it henry vl needs a planet to shape his course upon and need of ages and celestial one may say a lar system is already in the nature of s mind not less does the brain of of ay from childhood exploring the and of anticipate the of organization does not the eye of the burn the light the ear of the of sound do not fingers of the hard and of the properties of stone water and k d do not the lovely attributes of the maiden the and of civil here also we are reminded of the action i of man on man a mind might its for ages and not gain so much self knowledge as the passion of love teach it in a day who knows himself before he has been thrilled with at an outrage or has heard an eloquent tongue or has shared the throb of thousands in a national or alarm no man can hb experience or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall any more than he can draw to day the face of a person whom he shall see to morrow for the first time i will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this let it suffice that in the light of these two namely that the mind is one and that nature is its history is to be read and written thus in all ways does the soul and its treasures for each pupil he too shall pass through the whole of experience he shall collect a the rays of nature history no longer shall be a dull book it walk in every just and wise man too shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read you shall make me feel what periods you have lived a man shall be the temple of fame he shall walk as the poets have described that goddess in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences � hit ei t bt x own and features by their exalted shall he that rest i shall find in him the fore world in his childhood the age of gold die apples of knowledge the expedition the calling of the building of the temple the advent of christ dark ages the revival of letters the the discovery of new lands the of new and new regions in man he shall be the priest of pan and bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth is there somewhat in this i then i reject all i have written for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not but it is the fault of our that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to some other i hold our actual knowledge very cheap hear the rats 