out to sea with no guidance but his genius there is much to say on both sides the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor the generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all it is the only honesty nothing else is safe it is from the poor man s hut alone that strength and virtue come and yet on the other side it is alleged that labor the form and breaks the spirit of man and the cry we have no thoughts culture how indispensable i cannot ve you the want of accomplishments and yet will destroy that beauty of excellent is culture for a savage but once let bim read in the book and he it no longer able not to think of in true fortitude of in not letting what we know be embarrassed by wliat we do not know we ought to secure those advantages which we can command and not risk them by clutching after the airy and come no let us go abroad let us mix iu affairs let us learn and get and have and climb are a sort of moving plants and like trees receive a great part of their nourishment from the air if they keep too much at home they pine let us have a robust manly life let us know what we know for certain what we have let it be solid and sea and our own a world in the hand is worth two in the bush let us have to do with real men and women and not with ghosts this then is the right ground of the this of consideration of self containing not at all of un belief not at all of universal denying nor of universal doubting doubting even that he doubts least of all of and at all that is stable and good these are no more his moods than are those of religion and philosophy he is the the prudent taking in sail counting stock his means believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can afford to be his own that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict with powers so vast and ranged on one side and this little conceited that a man is up and down into every danger on the other it is a men tion taken up for better defence as of more safety and one tliat can be maintained and it is one of more opportunity and range as when we a the is to set it not too nor too low the wind but out of the dirt the philosophy we want is one of and the and schemes are too and stiff for our occasion a theory of saint john and of non resistance seems on the other hand too thin and we want some coat woven of elastic steel stout as the first and as the second we want a ship in these we an house would be rent to and in this storm of many elements no it must be tight and fit to the form of man to live at all as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea the soul of man must be the type of our just as the body of man is the after which a house is built is the peculiarity of human nature we are golden or errors houses founded on the sea the wise wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players what is best in the planet � art and nature places and events but mainly men ever that is excellent in mankind a form of grace an arm of iron lips of a brain of resources every one skilful to play and to win he will see and judge the terms of admission to this spectacle are that he have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own some method of answering the inevitable needs of human life proof that he has evinced the temper and the range of qualities whidi among his and him to fellowship and for the secrets of are not shown except to and men do not confide themselves to boys or or but to their some wise as the modem phrase is some condition between the extremes and having itself a quality some and sufficient man who is not salt or sugar but sufficiently related to the world to do justice to paris and london and at the same time a vigorous and original whom cities cannot but who uses them � is the fit person to occupy ground of speculation these qualities meet in the character of and yet since the personal regard which i entertain for may be great i will under the shield of this prince of offer as an apology for him as the of a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip a single odd volume of cotton s translation of the essays remained to me from my father s when a boy it lay long neglected until after many years when i was newly escaped from college i read the book and procured the remaining volumes i remember the delight and wonder in which i lived with it it seemed to me as if i had myself written the book in some former life so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience it happened when in paris in that in the of le chaise men i came to a tomb of died in aged years and said the monument lived to do right and had formed himself to virtue on the essays of some years later i became acquainted with an accomplished english poet john sterling and in my correspondence i found that from a love of be bad made 