of nature which is quite superior to our will it stands thus will always be a government of where men are selfish and when they are pure enough to the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends of the post office of the highway of commerce and the exchange of property of and of institutions of art and science can be answered we live in a very low state of the world and pay unwilling tribute to founded on force there is not among the most religious and politics instructed men of the most religious and civil nations a reliance on the moral sentiment and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial as well as the system or that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor without the hint of a jail or a what is strange too there never was in any man � � � � � � � h i i i w i i a � � the power of to inspire him with the broad design of the state i o have pretended this design have been partial and have admitted in some manner the of the bad state i do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws on the simple ground of his own moral nature such designs full of genius and lull of fate as they are are not entertained except as air pictures if the individual who them dare to think them practicable he scholars and f and men of talent and women of superior ments cannot hide their contempt not the does nature continue to fill the heart of youth v suggestions of this enthusiasm and there are men � if indeed i can speak in the nm ber � more exactly i will say i have e at tu been conversing with one man to whom no of adverse experience will make it for a n appear impossible that thousands of human might exercise towards each other the grand simplest sentiments as well as a knot of a pair of lovers and in countless upward striving waves the moon drawn tide wave in thousand far the parent fruit so in the new born millions the perfect adam lives not less are summer mornings dear to every child they wake and each with novel life his fills for his proper sake essay and i cannot often enough say that a man is only a relative and representative nature each is a hint of the truth but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us if i seek it in him i shall not find it could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he to be long afterwards i find that quality elsewhere which he promised me the genius of the is to the student yet how few particulars of it can i from all their books the man i � stands for the thought but will t examination � and a society of men will represent well enough a certain quality and for example chivalry or beauty of manners separate them and there is no gentleman and lady in the group the least hint sets us on pursuit of a character which no man essay have such eyes that on smallest arc we complete the curve and curtain is lifted from the which it to veil we are vexed to find that no drawn than just that fragment of an arc wh first beheld we are greatly too liberal in o of each other s faculty and promise what the parties have already done the do again but that which we inferred iron nature and they will not do thi nature but not in them that happens world which we often witness in a public each of the expresses himself no one of them hears much that another say is the of mind of each and who have only to hear and not to judge very wisely and how wrong and is each of the to hi affair great men or men of great gifts yo easily find but men never meet a pure intellectual force or a affection i believe here then is man and ai by the discovery that thi is no more available to his own or general ends than his companions power which drew my respect is not the total of his talents all exist to society by some shining trait of hei and utility which they hav e we borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature and finish the portrait which is false for the rest of his body is small or i observe a person who makes a good public appearance and conclude thence the perfection of his private character on which this is based but he has no private character he is a graceful cloak or lay figure for holidays all our poets heroes and saints fail utterly in some one or in many parts to satisfy our idea fail to draw our spontaneous interest and so leave us without any hope of but in our own future our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul but there are no such men as we fable no nor nor caesar nor nor washington such as we have made we a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men there is none without his i verily believe if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law he would eat too much or take liberties with private letters or do some precious it is bad enough that our cannot do anything useful but it is worse that no man is fit 