convenient for history when we come to the highest criticism we are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period and was or if you will modified in doing by the interfering of of of the organ whereby man at the moment wrought still more striking is the expression of this fact in the of all nations which are always the literature of reason or the statements of an absolute truth without like the sacred books of each nation are the of the that which the world chained to appearances will not allow the to say in his own words it will suffer him to say in without contradiction and this law of laws the pulpit the and the college deny is preached in all and by flights of whose teaching is as true and as as that of birds and flies in all things are double one against another � for an for an eye a tooth for a tooth blood for blood measure for measure love for love � give and it shall be given you � he shall be watered himself � what will you have god pay for it and take it � nothing venture nothing have � thou shall be paid exactly for what thou hast done no more no less � who doth not work shall not eat � harm watch harm catch � curses always on the head of him who them � if you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end itself around your own � bad counsel the adviser � the devil is an ass it is thus written because it is thus in life our action is and above our will by the law of nature we aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good but act itself by irresistible in a line with the poles of the world a man cannot speak but he judges himself with his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word every opinion on him who it it b a thrown at a mark but the other end remains in the s bag or rather it is a hurled at the whale as it flies a of cord in the boat and if tlie is not good or not wed thrown it will go nigh to cut the in twain or to sink the boat you cannot do wrong without suffering wrong no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him said the exclusive m fashionable life does not see that he himself from enjoyment in the attempt to appropriate it the in religion does not see that he the door of heaven on himself in striving to shut out others treat men as and and you shall suffer as well as they if you leave out their heart you shall lose your own the senses would make things of all persons of women of children of the poor the vulgar proverb i will get it from his purse or get it from his skin is sound philosophy all of love and in our social relations are speedily punished they are punished by fear i stand in simple to my fellow man i have no displeasure in meeting him we meet as water meets water or as two currents of air mix with perfect and of nature but as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at or good for me that is not good for him my neighbour feels tbe wrong he from me as far as i have shrunk from him his eyes no longer seek there is war between us there is hate in him and fear in me b at in all the old in society universal and par all unjust of property and power are in the same manner fear is an of great sagacity and the herald of all one thing he teaches that there is where he appears he is a crow and though you see not well what he for there is death somewhere our property is timid our laws are timid our cultivated classes are timid fear for ages has and and over government and property that bird is not there for nothing he great which must be of the like nature is that expectation of change which instantly follows the of our voluntary activity the terror of noon the of the awe of prosperity the which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble and virtue are the of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man experienced men of the world know very wed that it is best to pay and lot as they go along and that a man often pays dear for a small the runs in his own debt has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred and rendered none has he by through or cunning his neighbour s wares c m or horses or money there arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of on the one part and of debt on the other that is of superiority and inferiority the transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbour and every new transaction according to its nature their relation to each other he may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbour s coach and that the highest price he can pay for a is to ask for it a wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life and know that it is the part x f prudence to face every and pay every just demand on your time your talents or your heart always pay for first or last you must pay your entire debt persons and events may stand 