of perspiration � fever caprice doubt and a man s fortunes are the fruit of his character a man s friends are his we go to and tor examples of fate but we are examples the tendency of every man to all that is in his constitution is expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it and i have noticed a man likes better to be on his position as the proof of the last or total excellence than on his merits a man will see his character in the events that to meet but wliich from and accompany him events with the character as once he found himself among toys so now he plays a part in colossal systems and his growth is declared in his ambition his companions and his performance he looks like a piece of luck but is a of the and ground to fit into the gap he fills hence in each town there is some man who is hi his brain and an explanation of the production churches ways of living and society of town if you jo not chance to meet him all that you fate see will leave you a little puzzled if jou see him it will become plain we know in who built new who built and many another noisy each of these men if they were transparent would seem to you not so much men as walking cities and wherever you put them they would build one history is the action and reaction of these two � nature and thought two boys pushing each other on the of the pavement everything is or pushed and matter and mind are in perpetual and balance so whilst the man is weak tlie earth takes up to him he plants his brain and affections by and by he will take up the earth and have his gardens and in the beautiful order and of his thought every solid in the universe is ready to become on the approach of the mind and the power to it is the measure of the mind if the wall remain it the want of thought to a force it will stream into new forms expressive of the character of the mind what is the city in which we sit here but an of materials which have obeyed the will of some man the granite was reluctant but his hands were stronger and it came iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone but could not hide from his fires wood lime fruits were dispersed over the earth and sea in vain here they are within reach of every man s � what he wants of them the whole world is the of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build the races of men rise conduct of life out of the ground with a thought which rules them and divided into parties ready armed and angry to fight for abstraction the quality of the thought differences the egyptian and the roman the and the american the men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other certain ideas are in the air we are all for we are made of them all but some more than others and these first express them this explains the curious of inventions and discoveries tlie truth is iii the air and the most brain will announce it first but all will announce it a few minutes later so women as most susceptible are the best index of the coming hour so the great man that is tlie man most witli the spirit of the time is the man � of a fibre irritable and delicate like to he feels the attractions his mind is than others because he to a current so feeble as can be felt only by a needle delicately poised the is shown in defects in his essay on architecture taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful beauty had not been intended i find the like unity in human rather and tliat a in the blood will appear in the argument a in the shoulder will appear in the speech and if his mind could be seen the would be seen if a man has a in his voice it will run into his sentences into his poem into the structure of his fable into his speculation into his fate and as every man is hunted by bis own demon vexed by his own disease this all his activity so each man like each plant has his a strong nature has more enemies than the and that fret my leaves such an one has knife worms a ate him first then a then a then smooth plausible gentlemen bitter and selfish as this really existing can be divined if the threads are there thought can follow and show them especially when a soul is quick and as c or if the soul of proper kind be so perfect as men find that it what is to come and that he all and some of every of their by or figures but that our hath not might it to understand aright for it is warned too darkly some people are made up of rhyme coincidence omen and they meet the person they seek what their companion to say to them they say to him and a hundred signs them of what is about to befall wonderful in the web wonderful constancy in the design this vagabond hfe admits we wonder how the fly finds its mate and yet year after year we find two men two women legal or tie spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each 