present but with eye the past or heedless of the riches th t surround him stands on to foresee the future he cannot be happy and strong until be too lives with nature in the present above time this should be plain enough yet see what strong dare not yet hear god himself unless he speak the of i know not what david or or paul we shall not set so great a price on a few on a few lives we are like children who repeat by the sentences of and and as they older of the men of talents and character they i to see � painfully the exact they spoke afterwards when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings they understand them and are willing to let the words go for at any time they can use i� as good when occasion comes if we live truly we shall see truly it is as easy for the strong man to be strong as it is for the weak to be weak when we have new perception we shall gladly the memory of its treasures as � � ii old rubbish when a man lives with god lis shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the com and now at last the highest truth on this remains probably cannot be said for all that we say is the far off remembering of the that thought by what i can now nearest approach to say it is this when good is near you when you have life in yourself it is not by any known or accustomed way you shall not discern the foot prints of any other you shall not see the face of man you shall not hear any name � the way the thought the good shall be strange and new it shall example and experience you take the way from man not to man all persons that ever existed are its foi ministers fear and hope are alike beneath it there is somewhat low even in hope in the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude nor properly joy the soul raised over passion identity and eternal the self existence of truth and right and itself with knowing that all things go well vast spaces of nature tlie atlantic ocean the south sea � long intervals of lime years centuries � are of no account this which i think and feel every former state of life and circumstances as it does my present and what is called life and what is called death self reliance life only not the having lived power ceases in the of repose it in the moment of transition from a past to a new state in the shooting of the gulf in the darting to an aim this one fact the world hates that the soul becomes for that for ever the past turns ill riches to poverty all reputation to a shame tne saint with the rogue and equally aside why then do we of self reliance inasmuch as the soul is present will he power not confident but agent to talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking speak rather of that wliich because it and is who has more obedience than i me though he should not raise his finger round him i must by the of spirits we fancy it when we speak of eminent virtue we do not j et see that virtue h and that a man or a company of men md to principles by the law of nature and ride all cities nations kings � men poets who are not this b the ultimate fact which we so quickly each on this as on every topic the resolution of all the ever blessed one self existence is the of the supreme cause and it the of good by the degree in which it enters in o au lower forms all things real are so by so much ii virtue as they contain commerce hunting war eloquence personal are somewhat and engage my respect as examples of its presence and action i see the same law working in nature for and i power is in nature the essential measure of right nature suffers nothing to remain in her which cannot help itself the and tion of a planet its and the tree recovering itself from the strong wind the resources of every animal and vegetable are of the self and therefore soul thus all let us not let us sit at home with the cause let us and astonish the of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact bid the take the shoes from off their feet for god is here within let our simplicity judge them and our to our own law the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches but now wc are a mob man does not stand in awe of man nor is his genius to stay at home to put itself in communication with the internal but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of thi of other men we must go alone i like tho church before the service begins better any preaching how far off how cool how self the persons look each one with a or so let us always sit why should e assume the faults of our friend or wife or or child because they sit around our hearth or re said to have the same blood ah men have my and i have all men s not for that will i their or folly even to the extent f being ashamed of it but your must ot be mechanical but spiritual that is must be at times the whole world seems to be conspiracy to you with emphatic tries friend child sickness 